van Eesteren
E183503
Van Eesteren is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Cornelis van Eesteren, an influential modernist architect and urban planner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| van Eesteren canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1614793 — 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 Eesteren Context triple: [Cornelis van Eesteren, familyName, van Eesteren]
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A.
van Slingelandt
Van Slingelandt is a Dutch surname historically associated with a prominent political and administrative family in the Netherlands.
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B.
van Egeraat
van Egeraat is a Dutch surname most prominently associated with architect Erik van Egeraat.
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C.
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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D.
Bep Voskuijl
Bep Voskuijl was a Dutch office worker who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II by providing food, supplies, and support to those in the Secret Annex.
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E.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
- 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 Eesteren Target entity description: Van Eesteren is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Cornelis van Eesteren, an influential modernist architect and urban planner.
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A.
van Slingelandt
Van Slingelandt is a Dutch surname historically associated with a prominent political and administrative family in the Netherlands.
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B.
van Egeraat
van Egeraat is a Dutch surname most prominently associated with architect Erik van Egeraat.
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C.
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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D.
Bep Voskuijl
Bep Voskuijl was a Dutch office worker who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II by providing food, supplies, and support to those in the Secret Annex.
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E.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-language surname
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ urban planner ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | Municipality of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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urban planning ⓘ |
| genre | modernist urban design ⓘ |
| influenced | Dutch urban planning ⓘ |
| influencedBy | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| memberOf | Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Cornelis van Eesteren ⓘ |
| notableFor |
functional city planning principles
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modernist housing estates in Amsterdam ⓘ |
| notableWork | General Expansion Plan of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of urban planning ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Netherlands ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Netherlands ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chairman of CIAM ⓘ |
| workLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
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 Eesteren Description of subject: Van Eesteren is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Cornelis van Eesteren, an influential modernist architect and urban planner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.