Hering
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Hering is a German surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hering canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10986271 — 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: Hering Context triple: [Gottlieb Hering, familyName, Hering]
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A.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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B.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
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C.
Hahn
Hahn is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Herting
Herting is a given name associated with Johanna Herting Roebling, likely of Germanic origin and relatively uncommon in contemporary use.
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E.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
- 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: Hering Target entity description: Hering is a German surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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A.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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B.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
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C.
Hahn
Hahn is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Herting
Herting is a given name associated with Johanna Herting Roebling, likely of Germanic origin and relatively uncommon in contemporary use.
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E.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Hering
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Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ Hering ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
color vision
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phenomenology ⓘ |
| givenName | Ewald ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Conrad Hering
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Daniel Hering ⓘ Ewald Hering ⓘ Hermann Hering ⓘ Jean Hering ⓘ Karl Hering NERFINISHED ⓘ Marius Hering ⓘ
linked to:
Gottlieb Hering
Tony Hering ⓘ Wilhelm Hering ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | opponent-process theory of color vision ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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engineer ⓘ gymnast ⓘ jurist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physiologist ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Hering Description of subject: Hering is a German surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.