Phantom Imbalance entries

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I have recently transferred from kmymoney to gnucash. It took a long time
but I have got it mostly finished now. I had a lot of entries in the
imbalance account. I have gone through and corrected all the ones I can but
I am left with a lot of 'phantom' entries.

These are entries that have a description field that I use but aren't
linked to any transaction and have zero monetary value. If I select an
entry and click 'Jump to corresponding transaction' nothing happens because
there is no linked transaction.

The entries match genuine entries in another account ie the dates and
description match but the other entries are balanced with other accounts
and have a monetary value. There are also 2 or usually 3 phantom entries in
the imbalance account for each genuine entry.

I thought the imbalance account was automatically generated from other
accounts so I am puzzled how it can have entries that aren't linked to
entries in other accounts.

Should I just delete the phantom entries? I would rather understand how
they were created and where they came from in case deleting them has side
effects.

I transferred my data from kmymoney by exporting qifs for each account and
then importing them into gnucash plus a lot of tidying up afterwards.

thanks