van der Meer
E173681
Van der Meer is a Dutch surname borne by several notable individuals, including Nobel Prize–winning physicist Simon van der Meer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| van der Meer canonical | 12 |
| Van der Meer (concatenated forms such as Van derMeer, Vander Meer) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532559 — 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: van der Meer Context triple: [Simon van der Meer, familyName, van der Meer]
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A.
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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B.
van Slingelandt
Van Slingelandt is a Dutch surname historically associated with a prominent political and administrative family in the Netherlands.
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Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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D.
van Mook
Van Mook is the surname of Hubertus van Mook, a prominent Dutch colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies during and after World War II.
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E.
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.
- 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: van der Meer Target entity description: Van der Meer is a Dutch surname borne by several notable individuals, including Nobel Prize–winning physicist Simon van der Meer.
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A.
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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B.
van Slingelandt
Van Slingelandt is a Dutch surname historically associated with a prominent political and administrative family in the Netherlands.
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C.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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D.
van Mook
Van Mook is the surname of Hubertus van Mook, a prominent Dutch colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies during and after World War II.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: van der Meer Description of subject: Van der Meer is a Dutch surname borne by several notable individuals, including Nobel Prize–winning physicist Simon van der Meer.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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