Margareta van Eyck
E236096
Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margareta van Eyck canonical | 3 |
| Portrait of Margareta van Eyck | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2135108 — 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: Margareta van Eyck Context triple: [Jan van Eyck, spouse, Margareta van Eyck]
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A.
Adriana de Weyden
Adriana de Weyden was the wife of English Protestant martyr John Rogers, who was executed during the Marian persecutions in the 16th century.
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B.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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C.
Anna van Erckel
Anna van Erckel was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Ferdinand Bol and a member of a prominent Amsterdam family.
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D.
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Saskia van Uylenburgh was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt’s wife and frequent model, who appeared in many of his most intimate and celebrated works.
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E.
Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels was a Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt van Rijn’s longtime companion, model, and muse, frequently appearing in his later paintings.
- 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: Margareta van Eyck Target entity description: Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
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A.
Adriana de Weyden
Adriana de Weyden was the wife of English Protestant martyr John Rogers, who was executed during the Marian persecutions in the 16th century.
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B.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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C.
Anna van Erckel
Anna van Erckel was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Ferdinand Bol and a member of a prominent Amsterdam family.
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D.
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Saskia van Uylenburgh was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt’s wife and frequent model, who appeared in many of his most intimate and celebrated works.
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E.
Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels was a Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt van Rijn’s longtime companion, model, and muse, frequently appearing in his later paintings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| artworkLocation | Groeningemuseum, Bruges ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | County of Flanders ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | early 15th century ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 15th century ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Portrait of Margareta van Eyck ⓘ |
| depictionDate | 1439 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Flemish people ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| floruit | 1430s ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasSignatureOnPortrait | “My husband Jan completed me in the year 1439 on 17 June” ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the subject of a 1439 portrait by Jan van Eyck
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being the wife of Jan van Eyck ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Middle Dutch ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| movement |
Early Netherlandish art
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linked to:
Flemish Primitives art
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| name | Margareta van Eyck ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Portrait of Margareta van Eyck
ⓘ
linked to:
Margareta van Eyck
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| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | County of Flanders ⓘ |
| portraitBy | Jan van Eyck ⓘ |
| relative | children of Jan van Eyck ⓘ |
| residence | Bruges ⓘ |
| spouse | Jan van Eyck ⓘ |
| wearsInPortrait |
horned headdress
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red gown ⓘ |
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: Margareta van Eyck Description of subject: Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margareta van Eyck