"I'm not sure what the answer is."
The answer is there needs to be some sort of accountability required, where you can reach a human person who can resolve your issue. Under penalty of significant fines.
For knowledge panels, perhaps yes. Google is presenting them in a way that people unfamiliar with how Google operates might think it has verified the information.
But if you have an unusual name but share $FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME with a couple other people and one of them has been convicted of notable $CRIME, that person will turn up in searches for your name. I mean, that's what search engines do. It's up to the searcher to figure out--if they care enough to--that you are a different person.
But if your name is Jeffrey Epstein and all someone finds when they search on your name is that Jeffrey Epstein, I'm not sure what Google, Microsoft, or DuckDuckGo is supposed to do about that.
I'm not sure what accountability you're looking for in a straight web search. (Again leaving knowledge panels out of it.) You plugged in a name and a search engine returned the most popular/authoritative results for that name.
