Hedy Kiesler Markey

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Hedy Kiesler Markey, better known as Hedy Lamarr, was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor whose pioneering work on frequency-hopping technology laid the groundwork for modern wireless communications.

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Label	Occurrences
Hedy Lamarr	18
Hedy Kiesler Markey canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20339211 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Hedy Kiesler Markey
Context triple: [US2292387, assignee, Hedy Kiesler Markey]

A. Hedy McDodd
Hedy McDodd is a young Whoville resident from Dr. Seuss’s "Horton Hears a Who!" and its adaptations, known as one of Mayor Ned McDodd’s many children.
B. Jean Kerr McCarthy
Jean Kerr McCarthy was the wife of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and a conservative political figure who supported and helped manage aspects of his controversial anti-communist career.
C. Edwina Morrow
Edwina Morrow is a central female character in the 2017 Southern Gothic film "The Beguiled," portrayed as a repressed, morally conflicted teacher at a girls’ boarding school during the American Civil War.
D. Hedy Carlson
Hedy Carlson is a woman known primarily for being the college roommate of writer and journalist Allie Jones.
E. Eleanor Iselin
Eleanor Iselin is the manipulative, power-hungry mother and political schemer in the Cold War thriller film "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962).
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Hedy Kiesler Markey
Target entity description: Hedy Kiesler Markey, better known as Hedy Lamarr, was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor whose pioneering work on frequency-hopping technology laid the groundwork for modern wireless communications.

A. Hedy McDodd
Hedy McDodd is a young Whoville resident from Dr. Seuss’s "Horton Hears a Who!" and its adaptations, known as one of Mayor Ned McDodd’s many children.
B. Jean Kerr McCarthy
Jean Kerr McCarthy was the wife of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and a conservative political figure who supported and helped manage aspects of his controversial anti-communist career.
C. Edwina Morrow
Edwina Morrow is a central female character in the 2017 Southern Gothic film "The Beguiled," portrayed as a repressed, morally conflicted teacher at a girls’ boarding school during the American Civil War.
D. Hedy Carlson
Hedy Carlson is a woman known primarily for being the college roommate of writer and journalist Allie Jones.
E. Eleanor Iselin
Eleanor Iselin is the manipulative, power-hungry mother and political schemer in the Cold War thriller film "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962).
F. None of above. chosen