New Holland
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New Holland was the name given by the Dutch to their 17th-century colonial possessions in northeastern Brazil, known historically as Dutch Brazil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Holland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T195775 — 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: New Holland Context triple: [Dutch Brazil, alsoKnownAs, New Holland]
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A.
Erla Maschinenwerk
Erla Maschinenwerk was a German aircraft manufacturing company best known for producing Messerschmitt fighter planes under license during World War II.
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B.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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C.
Robart
Robart is an alternative spelling of the given name Robert, typically used as a personal or family name.
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D.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
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E.
Petit & Fritsen
Petit & Fritsen is a historic Dutch bell foundry renowned for casting church bells and carillons used in notable towers and monuments worldwide.
- 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: New Holland Target entity description: New Holland was the name given by the Dutch to their 17th-century colonial possessions in northeastern Brazil, known historically as Dutch Brazil.
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A.
Erla Maschinenwerk
Erla Maschinenwerk was a German aircraft manufacturing company best known for producing Messerschmitt fighter planes under license during World War II.
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B.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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C.
Robart
Robart is an alternative spelling of the given name Robert, typically used as a personal or family name.
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D.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
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E.
Petit & Fritsen
Petit & Fritsen is a historic Dutch bell foundry renowned for casting church bells and carillons used in notable towers and monuments worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: New Holland Description of subject: New Holland was the name given by the Dutch to their 17th-century colonial possessions in northeastern Brazil, known historically as Dutch Brazil.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.