Alidius
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Alidius is the given name of Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, a Dutch nobleman and colonial governor who served as the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies before and during the early years of World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alidius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1221586 — 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: Alidius Context triple: [Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, givenName, Alidius]
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A.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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D.
Catreus
Catreus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose tragic fate is tied to a prophecy that he would be killed by one of his own children.
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E.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
- 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: Alidius Target entity description: Alidius is the given name of Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, a Dutch nobleman and colonial governor who served as the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies before and during the early years of World War II.
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A.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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D.
Catreus
Catreus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose tragic fate is tied to a prophecy that he would be killed by one of his own children.
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E.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch nobleman
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Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ⓘ colonial governor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Netherlands ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| familyName | Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial administration
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diplomacy ⓘ politics ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Alidius ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Dutch nobleman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
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role during the early years of World War II in the Dutch East Indies ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
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diplomat ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
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member of the Dutch nobility ⓘ |
| residence |
Dutch East Indies
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Netherlands ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dutch East Indies
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Netherlands ⓘ |
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: Alidius Description of subject: Alidius is the given name of Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, a Dutch nobleman and colonial governor who served as the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies before and during the early years of World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.