Willem Arnold Alting
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Willem Arnold Alting was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company in the late 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
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| Willem Arnold Alting canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322184 — 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: Willem Arnold Alting Context triple: [Reinier de Klerk, succeededBy, Willem Arnold Alting]
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A.
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.
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B.
Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
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C.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
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D.
Dominie Hendrik Scholte
Dominie Hendrik Scholte was a 19th-century Dutch religious leader and founder of the Dutch immigrant settlement in Pella, Iowa, known for his role in leading a group of seceders from the Dutch Reformed Church to America.
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E.
Hans van Heeswijk
Hans van Heeswijk is a Dutch architect known for designing prominent cultural buildings, including major expansions and renovations of museums in the Netherlands.
- 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: Willem Arnold Alting Target entity description: Willem Arnold Alting was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company in the late 18th century.
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A.
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.
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B.
Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
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C.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
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D.
Dominie Hendrik Scholte
Dominie Hendrik Scholte was a 19th-century Dutch religious leader and founder of the Dutch immigrant settlement in Pella, Iowa, known for his role in leading a group of seceders from the Dutch Reformed Church to America.
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E.
Hans van Heeswijk
Hans van Heeswijk is a Dutch architect known for designing prominent cultural buildings, including major expansions and renovations of museums in the Netherlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Willem Arnold Alting Description of subject: Willem Arnold Alting was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company in the late 18th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.