ambiguous multiple citations with same authors (first name either full or initials)

Question

Here is minimal example (edited after this)--

\documentclass{article}   
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,natbib,
uniquename=false,
uniquelist=minyear,
backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @article{one,
        author = "Last, F.",
        title = {Title},
        journal = {A Journal},
        year = {2011},
    }
    @article{two,
        author = "Last, F.",
        title = {Title2},
        journal = {B Journal},
        year = {2011},
    } 
    @article{three,
        author = "Last, First",
        title = {Title3},
        journal = {C Journal},
        year = {2013},
    } 
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}


    \cite{one,two,three}


    \printbibliography

\end{document}

Here is the result --

Last, 2013; Last 2011a,b

However, I would like to have it something like --

Last, 2011a,b, 2013

Which I could get if I have all author names identical (including first and last names). I can't really modify the bib entry as long as it is the last option.

Seeing authoryear-comp will also set

autocite=inline, labeldate=true, uniquename=full, uniquelist=true

So, I have already tried different settings using uniquename and uniquelist of biblatex package (documentation), but could not get the desired result. There are some examples given in sec. 4.11.4 of the documentation but it is becoming more ambiguous to me. Can someone give me correct settings and make it little bit Disambiguious?

Answer 1

First of all, for biblatex Last, F. and Last, First are two different people. It cannot know that they are the same person (if they are at all). So for the most part it will try to treat them separately.

If you load authoryear-comp without modifications to the uniquename/uniquelist options

\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,backend=biber]{biblatex}

you get

F. Last 2011a,b; First Last 2013

That is, biblatex tries to disambiguate between the two in the citation output.

In your MWE you have uniquename=false, and with

\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,uniquename=false,backend=biber]{biblatex}

you don't get the disambiguation output in the citations. For all other purposes, however, the two authors are still different, though. So the two citations are not compressed.

You can add a shortauthor field to the entries

@article{one,
  author = "Last, F.",
  shortauthor = {Last, First},
  title = {Title},
  journal = {A Journal},
  year = {2011},
}
@article{two,
  author = "Last, F.",
  shortauthor = {Last, First},
  title = {Title2},
  journal = {B Journal},
  year = {2011},
} 
@article{three,
  author = "Last, First",
  shortauthor = {Last, First},
  title = {Title3},
  journal = {C Journal},
  year = {2013},
} 

Then the citation will be compressed as you expected, because for biblatex the author is the same in all works (at least in citations).

(The same should more or less hold for BibTeX as well, though some of its functionality is limited.)