Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
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Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5139675 — 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: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Context triple: [Hedy Lamarr, birthName, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler]
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A.
Hedwig Born
Hedwig Born was the wife of physicist Max Born and a mathematician and author in her own right, known for her contributions to his work and for co-authoring scientific and biographical writings.
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B.
Hedwiga Reicher
Hedwiga Reicher was a German-American actress known for her work on stage and in early 20th-century films.
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C.
Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge is a Swedish-born former fashion model of German and Swedish descent who worked internationally in the 1950s and 1960s and is the mother of actress Uma Thurman.
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D.
Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner
Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner, better known as Hannelore Kohl, was a German philanthropist and the wife of long-serving Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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E.
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef was a renowned German actress and singer, celebrated for her postwar film roles and distinctive, smoky-voiced chanson performances.
- 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: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Target entity description: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 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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A.
Hedwig Born
Hedwig Born was the wife of physicist Max Born and a mathematician and author in her own right, known for her contributions to his work and for co-authoring scientific and biographical writings.
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B.
Hedwiga Reicher
Hedwiga Reicher was a German-American actress known for her work on stage and in early 20th-century films.
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C.
Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge is a Swedish-born former fashion model of German and Swedish descent who worked internationally in the 1950s and 1960s and is the mother of actress Uma Thurman.
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D.
Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner
Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner, better known as Hannelore Kohl, was a German philanthropist and the wife of long-serving Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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E.
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef was a renowned German actress and singer, celebrated for her postwar film roles and distinctive, smoky-voiced chanson performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Description of subject: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 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.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.