Johann Georg Hiedler
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Johann Georg Hiedler was a 19th-century Austrian miller who is widely considered, though not definitively proven, to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johann Georg Hiedler canonical | 1 |
| Johann Georg Hüttler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1469223 — 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: Johann Georg Hiedler Context triple: [Alois Hitler, father, Johann Georg Hiedler]
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A.
Franz Schlegelberger
Franz Schlegelberger was a high-ranking German jurist who served as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice under the Nazi regime and was later convicted for his role in implementing its oppressive legal policies.
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B.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was a high-ranking German civil servant in the Reich Chancellery who participated in the planning of the Holocaust as an attendee of the Wannsee Conference.
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C.
Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in developing a distinctively American Gothic and Romanesque architectural style.
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D.
Heinrich Dau
Heinrich Dau was the German naval officer who commanded the merchant raider involved in the World War II Altmark Incident.
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E.
Friedrich Obleser
Friedrich Obleser was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who later became a senior officer in the postwar West German Air Force (Bundesluftwaffe).
- 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: Johann Georg Hiedler Target entity description: Johann Georg Hiedler was a 19th-century Austrian miller who is widely considered, though not definitively proven, to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.
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A.
Franz Schlegelberger
Franz Schlegelberger was a high-ranking German jurist who served as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice under the Nazi regime and was later convicted for his role in implementing its oppressive legal policies.
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B.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was a high-ranking German civil servant in the Reich Chancellery who participated in the planning of the Holocaust as an attendee of the Wannsee Conference.
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C.
Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in developing a distinctively American Gothic and Romanesque architectural style.
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D.
Heinrich Dau
Heinrich Dau was the German naval officer who commanded the merchant raider involved in the World War II Altmark Incident.
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E.
Friedrich Obleser
Friedrich Obleser was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who later became a senior officer in the postwar West German Air Force (Bundesluftwaffe).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian person
ⓘ
human ⓘ miller ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Johann Georg Hiedler-Hüttler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johann Georg Hiedler ⓘ
surface form:
Johann Georg Hüttler
|
| burialPlace | Weitra, Lower Austria ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
ⓘ
surface form:
Austrian Empire
|
| dateOfBirth | 1792-02-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1857-02-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German Bohemian ⓘ |
| familyName | Hiedler ⓘ |
| givenName |
Georg
ⓘ
Johann ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1842-05-10 ⓘ |
| name | Johann Georg Hiedler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being widely considered the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler
ⓘ
posthumous legal recognition as father of Alois Hitler in 1876 ⓘ |
| occupation | miller ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfatherOf | Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Spital, Weitra, Austrian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Spital, Weitra, Lower Austria
|
| placeOfDeath |
Spital, Weitra, Austrian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Spital, Weitra, Lower Austria
|
| relative |
Adolf Hitler
ⓘ
Alois Hitler ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Spital, Weitra, Austrian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Spital, Weitra, Lower Austria
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maria Schicklgruber
ⓘ
surface form:
Maria Anna Schicklgruber
Maria Schicklgruber ⓘ
surface form:
Maria Anna Schicklgruber (married 1842-05-10)
|
| stepfatherOf | Alois Hitler ⓘ |
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: Johann Georg Hiedler Description of subject: Johann Georg Hiedler was a 19th-century Austrian miller who is widely considered, though not definitively proven, to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Johann Georg Hüttler