Hermann Heidegger
E204762
Hermann Heidegger was the son and literary executor of philosopher Martin Heidegger, known for editing and overseeing publications of his father's works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heidegger | 1 |
| Hermann Heidegger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1668120 — 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: Hermann Heidegger Context triple: [Martin Heidegger, child, Hermann Heidegger]
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A.
Jörg Heidegger
Jörg Heidegger is the son of the influential German philosopher Martin Heidegger.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
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C.
Elfride Heidegger
Elfride Heidegger was the wife of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and played a significant role in managing his personal and intellectual affairs.
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D.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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E.
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher and founder of phenomenology, whose rigorous analysis of consciousness and intentionality profoundly shaped 20th-century continental philosophy and logic.
- 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: Hermann Heidegger Target entity description: Hermann Heidegger was the son and literary executor of philosopher Martin Heidegger, known for editing and overseeing publications of his father's works.
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A.
Jörg Heidegger
Jörg Heidegger is the son of the influential German philosopher Martin Heidegger.
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B.
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
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C.
Elfride Heidegger
Elfride Heidegger was the wife of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and played a significant role in managing his personal and intellectual affairs.
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D.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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E.
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher and founder of phenomenology, whose rigorous analysis of consciousness and intentionality profoundly shaped 20th-century continental philosophy and logic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
literary executor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-08-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-01-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Freiburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Freiburg University
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| familyName |
Heidegger
ⓘ
linked to:
Hermann Heidegger
|
| father | Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Heidegger studies
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editorial work ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Hermann ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Elfride Heidegger
ⓘ
Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defending his father’s philosophical and political legacy
ⓘ
editing and overseeing publications of Martin Heidegger’s works ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | German ⓘ |
| lifespan | 1920-2020 ⓘ |
| mother | Elfride Heidegger ⓘ |
| notableRole |
editor of Martin Heidegger’s collected works
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literary executor of Martin Heidegger ⓘ overseer of Martin Heidegger’s literary estate ⓘ |
| notableWork |
editing posthumous writings of Martin Heidegger
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editing the Gesamtausgabe of Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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literary executor ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Freiburg im Breisgau ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Messkirch ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Jörg Heidegger ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hermann Heidegger Description of subject: Hermann Heidegger was the son and literary executor of philosopher Martin Heidegger, known for editing and overseeing publications of his father's works.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hermann Heidegger