Grace Lee Whitney

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Grace Lee Whitney was an American actress best known for playing Yeoman Janice Rand in the original Star Trek television series.

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Label	Occurrences
Grace Lee Whitney canonical	5

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17862034 — 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: Grace Lee Whitney
Context triple: [Yeoman Janice Rand, portrayedBy, Grace Lee Whitney]

A. Margaret Esherick
Margaret Esherick was the original private client and resident for whom architect Louis Kahn designed the renowned Esherick House in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
B. Lillian Souers
Lillian Souers was the wife of Sidney Souers, the first Director of Central Intelligence in the United States.
C. Charlotte Anita Whitney
Charlotte Anita Whitney was an American political activist and early 20th-century socialist whose prosecution under California’s criminal syndicalism laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Whitney v. California.
D. Mildred Kraft
Mildred Kraft was the wife of famed American trombonist and big band leader Tommy Dorsey.
E. Ellen Gleason
Ellen Gleason is a member of the Gleason family, related to pioneering American engineer and businesswoman Kate Gleason.
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: Grace Lee Whitney
Target entity description: Grace Lee Whitney was an American actress best known for playing Yeoman Janice Rand in the original Star Trek television series.

A. Margaret Esherick
Margaret Esherick was the original private client and resident for whom architect Louis Kahn designed the renowned Esherick House in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
B. Lillian Souers
Lillian Souers was the wife of Sidney Souers, the first Director of Central Intelligence in the United States.
C. Charlotte Anita Whitney
Charlotte Anita Whitney was an American political activist and early 20th-century socialist whose prosecution under California’s criminal syndicalism laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Whitney v. California.
D. Mildred Kraft
Mildred Kraft was the wife of famed American trombonist and big band leader Tommy Dorsey.
E. Ellen Gleason
Ellen Gleason is a member of the Gleason family, related to pioneering American engineer and businesswoman Kate Gleason.
F. None of above. chosen