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Common Name Disambiguation: Find the Right Person
26 August 2026 · 7 min read
Name collisions are the main way people-search goes wrong. The internet is full of the same name attached to different lives. Your job is not to pick the first card. It is to reject the ones that cannot be true.
Signals that separate people
- Current or last employer
- City and region
- Job title and industry
- School and graduation era
- Face, when a public photo exists
- A unique middle name or suffix
Red flags
Career jumps that make no sense. Photos that are clearly different people. The same name in the wrong country on every authoritative page. A celebrity swallowing the results. When that happens, add a filter instead of squinting harder.
How DeepSearch handles it
The app is built around picking a person, not dumping a blob of search hits. Reports include a confidence score and source links. If the score is modest, treat the profile as a hypothesis and click through. Wrong-person outreach is on you, not on the summary.
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