Jan van der Linden
E118558
Jan van der Linden was an architect known for his role in designing Los Angeles’ historic Union Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan van der Linden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T690701 — 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: Jan van der Linden Context triple: [Union Station (Los Angeles), architect, Jan van der Linden]
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A.
Jan van der Vliet
Jan van der Vliet was a Dutch artist associated with the Delft painters’ Guild of Saint Luke during the Dutch Golden Age.
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B.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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C.
Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
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D.
Klaas Dijkhoff
Klaas Dijkhoff is a Dutch politician who has served as a prominent leader and strategist within the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), including roles as State Secretary and parliamentary group leader.
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E.
Jan Verkolje
Jan Verkolje was a 17th-century Dutch painter and mezzotint engraver known for his portraits and genre scenes in the Baroque style.
- 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: Jan van der Linden Target entity description: Jan van der Linden was an architect known for his role in designing Los Angeles’ historic Union Station.
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A.
Jan van der Vliet
Jan van der Vliet was a Dutch artist associated with the Delft painters’ Guild of Saint Luke during the Dutch Golden Age.
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B.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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C.
Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
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D.
Klaas Dijkhoff
Klaas Dijkhoff is a Dutch politician who has served as a prominent leader and strategist within the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), including roles as State Secretary and parliamentary group leader.
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E.
Jan Verkolje
Jan Verkolje was a 17th-century Dutch painter and mezzotint engraver known for his portraits and genre scenes in the Baroque style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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railway station ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| heritageStatus | historic landmark ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing Los Angeles Union Station ⓘ |
| location | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Los Angeles Union Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Union Station (Los Angeles)
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| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| roleIn | design of Los Angeles Union Station ⓘ |
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: Jan van der Linden Description of subject: Jan van der Linden was an architect known for his role in designing Los Angeles’ historic Union Station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Union Station