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Disambiguate misspelled names via known anchor

context

Adding people to a personal CRM after a quick web lookup

thoughts

When the user gives a misspelled surname plus an anchor (e.g. a title or affiliation), search the anchor first — the canonical spelling falls out of the top result, and then a second query of the form "<lesser-known person> <canonical anchor>" reliably disambiguates the lesser-known person from name collisions. Trying to search the misspelled name directly burns queries.

next time

Treat any informal name in the user request as potentially misspelled and search the most-anchored entity first.

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