Jobst von Scholten
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Jobst von Scholten was a Danish military officer best known for commanding Danish forces at the early 18th-century Battle of Gadebusch during the Great Northern War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jobst von Scholten canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5506636 — 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: Jobst von Scholten Context triple: [Battle of Gadebusch, commander, Jobst von Scholten]
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A.
Gerrit van der Heyden
Gerrit van der Heyden was a Dutch Golden Age figure known primarily as the brother of the renowned painter and inventor Jan van der Heyden.
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B.
Godfried van Mierlo
Godfried van Mierlo was a 16th-century Dutch Dominican prelate who served as bishop during the turbulent years of the Reformation in the Low Countries.
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C.
Hans van Mierlo
Hans van Mierlo was a prominent Dutch politician, journalist, and co-founder of the social-liberal party Democrats 66 who served as both party leader and government minister.
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D.
Jeremias van Riemsdijk
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was an 18th-century Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who played a key role in the administration of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia.
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E.
Johann von Bergen
Johann von Bergen was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit.
- 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: Jobst von Scholten Target entity description: Jobst von Scholten was a Danish military officer best known for commanding Danish forces at the early 18th-century Battle of Gadebusch during the Great Northern War.
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A.
Gerrit van der Heyden
Gerrit van der Heyden was a Dutch Golden Age figure known primarily as the brother of the renowned painter and inventor Jan van der Heyden.
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B.
Godfried van Mierlo
Godfried van Mierlo was a 16th-century Dutch Dominican prelate who served as bishop during the turbulent years of the Reformation in the Low Countries.
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C.
Hans van Mierlo
Hans van Mierlo was a prominent Dutch politician, journalist, and co-founder of the social-liberal party Democrats 66 who served as both party leader and government minister.
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D.
Jeremias van Riemsdijk
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was an 18th-century Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who played a key role in the administration of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia.
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E.
Johann von Bergen
Johann von Bergen was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish military officer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Gadebusch
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Great Northern War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Danish ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | von Scholten ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Jobst ⓘ |
| hasRole | commander of Danish forces ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Danish
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Danish army
ⓘ
linked to:
Danish Army
|
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| name | Jobst von Scholten ⓘ |
| notableFor | Commanding Danish forces at the Battle of Gadebusch ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command of Danish forces at the Battle of Gadebusch ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Gadebusch
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Great Northern War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Denmark
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Gadebusch ⓘ |
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: Jobst von Scholten Description of subject: Jobst von Scholten was a Danish military officer best known for commanding Danish forces at the early 18th-century Battle of Gadebusch during the Great Northern War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.