Vos
E286306
Vos is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including theologian Geerhardus Vos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vos canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2648195 — 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: Vos Context triple: [Geerhardus Vos, familyName, Vos]
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A.
Vuhovi
Vuhovi is a locality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo known for being heavily affected during the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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B.
Roisséens
Roisséens are the inhabitants of Roissy-en-France, a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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C.
Bodéwadmi
Bodéwadmi are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people of the Great Lakes region in North America, known in English as the Potawatomi.
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D.
Viarmes
Viarmes is a small commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, located in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region of France.
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E.
Trebanos
Trebanos is a village in South Wales situated within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.
- 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: Vos Target entity description: Vos is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including theologian Geerhardus Vos.
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A.
Vuhovi
Vuhovi is a locality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo known for being heavily affected during the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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B.
Roisséens
Roisséens are the inhabitants of Roissy-en-France, a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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C.
Bodéwadmi
Bodéwadmi are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people of the Great Lakes region in North America, known in English as the Potawatomi.
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D.
Viarmes
Viarmes is a small commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, located in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region of France.
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E.
Trebanos
Trebanos is a village in South Wales situated within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-language surname
ⓘ
cyclist ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| category | surnames derived from nicknames ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Middle Dutch word for fox ⓘ |
| familyName | Vos ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Reformed theology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Geerhardus
ⓘ
Jan ⓘ Marianne ⓘ Pieter ⓘ Roelof ⓘ Willem ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Geerhardus Vos
ⓘ
Jan Vos ⓘ Marianne Vos ⓘ Pieter Vos ⓘ Roelof Vos ⓘ Willem Vos ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
De Vos
ⓘ
linked to:
Jason de Vos
Vosch ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| meaning | fox ⓘ |
| nationality |
Dutch
ⓘ
Dutch-American ⓘ |
| sport |
cyclo-cross
ⓘ
road cycling ⓘ track cycling ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Belgium
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Netherlands ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Vos Description of subject: Vos is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including theologian Geerhardus Vos.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.