Willem de Zwijger
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Willem de Zwijger is William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the key leader of the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and a founding figure of the Netherlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willem de Zwijger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3231336 — 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 de Zwijger Context triple: [Willem van Nassau, alsoKnownAs, Willem de Zwijger]
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A.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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B.
Willem de Vlugt
Willem de Vlugt was a Dutch politician who served as the mayor of Amsterdam during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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C.
Jan Verkade
Jan Verkade was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and the Nabis, known for his synthetist style and later life as a Benedictine monk.
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D.
Willem Delff
Willem Delff was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter from Delft, known for his detailed reproductive engravings after prominent artists of his time.
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E.
Aeltge Velthuys
Aeltge Velthuys was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Carel Fabritius, known primarily through her connection to the artist.
- 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 de Zwijger Target entity description: Willem de Zwijger is William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the key leader of the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and a founding figure of the Netherlands.
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A.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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B.
Willem de Vlugt
Willem de Vlugt was a Dutch politician who served as the mayor of Amsterdam during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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C.
Jan Verkade
Jan Verkade was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and the Nabis, known for his synthetist style and later life as a Benedictine monk.
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D.
Willem Delff
Willem Delff was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter from Delft, known for his detailed reproductive engravings after prominent artists of his time.
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E.
Aeltge Velthuys
Aeltge Velthuys was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Carel Fabritius, known primarily through her connection to the artist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Willem de Zwijger Description of subject: Willem de Zwijger is William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the key leader of the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and a founding figure of the Netherlands.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.