John of Leiden
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John of Leiden was a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist leader who became the self-proclaimed "King of Münster" during the radical Münster Rebellion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John of Leiden canonical | 3 |
| Jan van Leyden | 1 |
| Jean de Leyde | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18500068 — 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: John of Leiden Context triple: [Jan van Leiden, alsoKnownAs, John of Leiden]
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Adriaan van der Meyden
Adriaan van der Meyden was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as a leading official of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka).
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B.
Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
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C.
Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch sailor and diarist best known for his detailed eyewitness account of Willem Barentsz’s Arctic voyages and the overwintering on Nova Zembla in the late 16th century.
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D.
Frederik van Egmond
Frederik van Egmond was a 15th-century Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as stadtholder of Guelders and was a prominent member of the influential House of Egmond.
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E.
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn was a Dutch navigator and one of the first Western advisers to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan in the early 17th century.
- 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: John of Leiden Target entity description: John of Leiden was a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist leader who became the self-proclaimed "King of Münster" during the radical Münster Rebellion.
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A.
Adriaan van der Meyden
Adriaan van der Meyden was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as a leading official of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka).
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B.
Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
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C.
Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch sailor and diarist best known for his detailed eyewitness account of Willem Barentsz’s Arctic voyages and the overwintering on Nova Zembla in the late 16th century.
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D.
Frederik van Egmond
Frederik van Egmond was a 15th-century Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as stadtholder of Guelders and was a prominent member of the influential House of Egmond.
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E.
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn was a Dutch navigator and one of the first Western advisers to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan in the early 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.