Kiesler
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Kiesler is the birth surname of Austrian-born Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kiesler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5139677 — 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: Kiesler Context triple: [Hedy Lamarr, familyName, Kiesler]
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A.
Kehler
Kehler is a German-origin surname borne by various individuals, including American Air Force general C. Robert Kehler.
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B.
Kiesen
Kiesen is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, served by a station on the Bern–Thun railway line.
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C.
Keller
Keller is the surname of Helen Keller, the renowned American author and disability rights advocate who was both deaf and blind.
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D.
Kubelsky
Kubelsky is the original surname of American comedian and entertainer Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky.
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E.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
- 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: Kiesler Target entity description: Kiesler is the birth surname of Austrian-born Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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A.
Kehler
Kehler is a German-origin surname borne by various individuals, including American Air Force general C. Robert Kehler.
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B.
Kiesen
Kiesen is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, served by a station on the Bern–Thun railway line.
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C.
Keller
Keller is the surname of Helen Keller, the renowned American author and disability rights advocate who was both deaf and blind.
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D.
Kubelsky
Kubelsky is the original surname of American comedian and entertainer Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky.
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E.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| bearer | Hedy Lamarr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | German-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | German-language surname ⓘ |
| familyNameAtBirth | Kiesler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Eva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hedwig NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Hedy Lamarr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s
ⓘ
spread-spectrum technology co-invention ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
inventor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| usedInCountryOrRegion |
Austria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kiesler Description of subject: Kiesler is the birth surname of Austrian-born Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hedy Lamarr