H. A. Maaskant
E20512
H. A. Maaskant was a prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer known for his large-scale postwar modernist designs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| H.A. Maaskant | 2 |
| H. A. Maaskant canonical | 1 |
| Hugh Aart Maaskant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T41336 — 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: H. A. Maaskant Context triple: [Netherlands Carillon, structuralEngineer, H. A. Maaskant]
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A.
Joost W. C. Boks
Joost W. C. Boks was a Dutch architect best known for designing the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, a postwar monument symbolizing Dutch-American friendship.
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B.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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C.
Isaac van Hoornbeek
Isaac van Hoornbeek was a 17th-century Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland, acting as one of the leading political figures of the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Johannes Voet
Johannes Voet was a prominent 17th–18th century Dutch jurist and legal scholar whose writings became highly influential in the development and interpretation of Roman-Dutch law.
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E.
Jacob van Swanenburgh
Jacob van Swanenburgh was a Dutch painter of the early 17th century, known for his atmospheric cityscapes and infernal scenes and for having taught the young Rembrandt.
- 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: H. A. Maaskant Target entity description: H. A. Maaskant was a prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer known for his large-scale postwar modernist designs.
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A.
Joost W. C. Boks
Joost W. C. Boks was a Dutch architect best known for designing the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, a postwar monument symbolizing Dutch-American friendship.
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B.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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C.
Isaac van Hoornbeek
Isaac van Hoornbeek was a 17th-century Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland, acting as one of the leading political figures of the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Johannes Voet
Johannes Voet was a prominent 17th–18th century Dutch jurist and legal scholar whose writings became highly influential in the development and interpretation of Roman-Dutch law.
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E.
Jacob van Swanenburgh
Jacob van Swanenburgh was a Dutch painter of the early 17th century, known for his atmospheric cityscapes and infernal scenes and for having taught the young Rembrandt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ structural engineer ⓘ |
| architecturalTypeSpecialty |
large-scale buildings
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postwar reconstruction projects ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II ⓘ |
| familyName | Maaskant ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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structural engineering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| knownFor | large-scale postwar modernist designs in the Netherlands ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Dutch ⓘ |
| movement |
modernism
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postwar modernism ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notability | prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer ⓘ |
| notableWork | large-scale postwar modernist designs ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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structural engineer ⓘ |
| style | large-scale modernist architecture ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Netherlands
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Rotterdam ⓘ |
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: H. A. Maaskant Description of subject: H. A. Maaskant was a prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer known for his large-scale postwar modernist designs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: H. A. Maaskant
linked to: H. A. Maaskant
subject linked to:
Maaskant
linked to: H. A. Maaskant