Ambiguity is inherent in the digital records of entities such as patents, scholarly works, human names, or institutions. While we have made some progress to preserve each entity’s one to one relationship using open persistent identifiers, in this contribution, we show how the Lens has used the MetaRecord (MeR) concept along with the open LensID identifier to begin mapping the one to many relationships among these data elements, disambiguating name variants, and organizing contextual metadata.