Michael Henry Heim
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Michael Henry Heim was a renowned American translator and scholar celebrated for bringing major works of Central and Eastern European literature into English.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Henry Heim canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Henry Heim Context triple: [Peeling the Onion, translatorIntoEnglish, Michael Henry Heim]
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A.
Michael Bergmann
Michael Bergmann is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in epistemology, particularly on skepticism, justification, and religious epistemology.
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B.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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C.
Marten Wassmann
Marten Wassmann is an architect known for his partnership role at the Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architekten.
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D.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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E.
Erwin Kurtz
Erwin Kurtz is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Kurtz.
- 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: Michael Henry Heim Target entity description: Michael Henry Heim was a renowned American translator and scholar celebrated for bringing major works of Central and Eastern European literature into English.
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A.
Michael Bergmann
Michael Bergmann is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in epistemology, particularly on skepticism, justification, and religious epistemology.
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B.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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C.
Marten Wassmann
Marten Wassmann is an architect known for his partnership role at the Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architekten.
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D.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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E.
Erwin Kurtz
Erwin Kurtz is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Kurtz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary scholar ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Central European literature in English translation
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Eastern European literature in English translation ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship
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PEN Translation Prize ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Central and Eastern European literary circles ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| familyName | Heim ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Central European literature
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Eastern European literature ⓘ Slavic studies ⓘ translation studies ⓘ |
| genre | literary translation ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| influenced | younger generations of literary translators ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
Czech
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English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Serbo-Croatian ⓘ |
| movement | postwar literary translation from Eastern Europe into English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Henry Heim ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped introduce Central and Eastern European literature to English-speaking audiences
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translated major works from multiple Slavic and Central European languages into English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
English translations of Bohumil Hrabal
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English translations of Danilo Kiš ⓘ English translations of Dubravka Ugrešić ⓘ English translations of Milan Kundera ⓘ English translations of Péter Esterházy ⓘ |
| occupation |
translator
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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