Cornelis
E103491
Cornelis is a Dutch given name historically borne by notable figures such as statesman Cornelis de Witt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelis canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560162 — 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: Cornelis Context triple: [Cornelis de Witt, givenName, Cornelis]
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A.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
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B.
Dirck van Delen
Dirck van Delen was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his meticulously rendered architectural and church interior scenes.
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C.
Dirck van der Lisse
Dirck van der Lisse was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter known for his landscapes and association with the circle of Jan van Goyen.
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D.
Pieter
Pieter is the given first name of the influential Afrikaans poet, playwright, and essayist N. P. van Wyk Louw.
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E.
Isaac van Hoornbeek
Isaac van Hoornbeek was a 17th-century Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland, acting as one of the leading political figures of the Dutch Republic.
- 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: Cornelis Target entity description: Cornelis is a Dutch given name historically borne by notable figures such as statesman Cornelis de Witt.
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A.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
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B.
Dirck van Delen
Dirck van Delen was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his meticulously rendered architectural and church interior scenes.
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C.
Dirck van der Lisse
Dirck van der Lisse was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter known for his landscapes and association with the circle of Jan van Goyen.
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D.
Pieter
Pieter is the given first name of the influential Afrikaans poet, playwright, and essayist N. P. van Wyk Louw.
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E.
Isaac van Hoornbeek
Isaac van Hoornbeek was a 17th-century Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland, acting as one of the leading political figures of the Dutch Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Cornelis Description of subject: Cornelis is a Dutch given name historically borne by notable figures such as statesman Cornelis de Witt.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.