De jacobsladder (novel)
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De jacobsladder is a Dutch novel by Maarten ’t Hart that explores complex human relationships and moral dilemmas in a small-town setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De jacobsladder (novel) canonical | 1 |
| De jacobsladder (well-known novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13305983 — 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: De jacobsladder (novel) Context triple: [Maarten ’t Hart, notableWork, De jacobsladder (novel)]
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A.
Jacob's ladder
Jacob's ladder is the biblical vision of a stairway or ladder reaching between earth and heaven, seen by the patriarch Jacob and symbolizing the connection between God and humanity.
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B.
Jacob’s Folly
Jacob’s Folly is a novel by Rebecca Miller that blends historical and contemporary narratives through the story of an 18th-century French Jew reincarnated as a modern-day American housefly.
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C.
The Ladder
The Ladder is a pioneering lesbian literary and political magazine that served as the primary publication of the Daughters of Bilitis and played a crucial role in early LGBTQ+ activism in the United States.
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D.
The Ladder
"The Ladder" is a soulful, spiritually themed song by Prince from his 1985 album *Around the World in a Day*.
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E.
Der Segen Jacobs
"Der Segen Jacobs" is the doctoral dissertation written by the German-American Reform rabbi and theologian Kaufmann Kohler.
- 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: De jacobsladder (novel) Target entity description: De jacobsladder is a Dutch novel by Maarten ’t Hart that explores complex human relationships and moral dilemmas in a small-town setting.
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A.
Jacob's ladder
Jacob's ladder is the biblical vision of a stairway or ladder reaching between earth and heaven, seen by the patriarch Jacob and symbolizing the connection between God and humanity.
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B.
Jacob’s Folly
Jacob’s Folly is a novel by Rebecca Miller that blends historical and contemporary narratives through the story of an 18th-century French Jew reincarnated as a modern-day American housefly.
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C.
The Ladder
The Ladder is a pioneering lesbian literary and political magazine that served as the primary publication of the Daughters of Bilitis and played a crucial role in early LGBTQ+ activism in the United States.
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D.
The Ladder
"The Ladder" is a soulful, spiritually themed song by Prince from his 1985 album *Around the World in a Day*.
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E.
Der Segen Jacobs
"Der Segen Jacobs" is the doctoral dissertation written by the German-American Reform rabbi and theologian Kaufmann Kohler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Maarten ’t Hart ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| genre |
Dutch literature
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fiction ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Maarten ’t Hart ⓘ |
| language | Dutch ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
complex human relationships
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moral dilemmas ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| setting | small town ⓘ |
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: De jacobsladder (novel) Description of subject: De jacobsladder is a Dutch novel by Maarten ’t Hart that explores complex human relationships and moral dilemmas in a small-town setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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