Witte Corneliszoon de With
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Witte Corneliszoon de With was a 17th-century Dutch admiral known for his aggressive leadership and major role in the naval wars of the Dutch Republic, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Witte Corneliszoon de With canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1112495 — 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: Witte Corneliszoon de With Context triple: [Dutch navy of the Republic, notableCommander, Witte Corneliszoon de With]
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A.
Frederik de Wit
Frederik de Wit was a prominent 17th-century Dutch cartographer and publisher renowned for his richly decorated maps and atlases produced during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
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B.
Cornelis de Vos
Cornelis de Vos was a prominent Flemish Baroque painter known for his refined portraits and religious scenes in early 17th-century Antwerp.
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C.
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft, best known for his detailed still lifes and kitchen scenes.
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D.
Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet
Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft, best known for his detailed church interiors and architectural scenes.
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E.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
- 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: Witte Corneliszoon de With Target entity description: Witte Corneliszoon de With was a 17th-century Dutch admiral known for his aggressive leadership and major role in the naval wars of the Dutch Republic, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
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A.
Frederik de Wit
Frederik de Wit was a prominent 17th-century Dutch cartographer and publisher renowned for his richly decorated maps and atlases produced during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
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B.
Cornelis de Vos
Cornelis de Vos was a prominent Flemish Baroque painter known for his refined portraits and religious scenes in early 17th-century Antwerp.
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C.
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft, best known for his detailed still lifes and kitchen scenes.
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D.
Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet
Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft, best known for his detailed church interiors and architectural scenes.
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E.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Witte Corneliszoon de With Description of subject: Witte Corneliszoon de With was a 17th-century Dutch admiral known for his aggressive leadership and major role in the naval wars of the Dutch Republic, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Friesland
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notableOfficeHolder
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Witte Corneliszoon de With
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subject linked to:
Dutch destroyer Witte de With