De Dam
E65568
De Dam is Amsterdam’s central and historic main square, known for its royal palace, national monument, and role as a major public gathering place.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T515259 — 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: De Dam Context triple: [Dam Square, hasDutchName, De Dam]
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A.
Leven
Leven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the council area of Fife.
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B.
Waal
The Waal is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, serving as an important waterway for shipping and part of the country’s main river system.
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C.
Magdalena
Magdalena is the given first name of Swedish opera singer and environmental activist Malena Ernman.
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D.
Kostverlorenvaart
Kostverlorenvaart is a canal in Amsterdam that connects the city's western waterways with the River Amstel and the IJ.
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E.
Grevelingendam
Grevelingendam is a major dam in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the Delta Works, protecting the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta from flooding while separating the Grevelingenmeer from the North Sea.
- 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: De Dam Target entity description: De Dam is Amsterdam’s central and historic main square, known for its royal palace, national monument, and role as a major public gathering place.
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A.
Leven
Leven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the council area of Fife.
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B.
Waal
The Waal is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, serving as an important waterway for shipping and part of the country’s main river system.
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C.
Magdalena
Magdalena is the given first name of Swedish opera singer and environmental activist Malena Ernman.
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D.
Kostverlorenvaart
Kostverlorenvaart is a canal in Amsterdam that connects the city's western waterways with the River Amstel and the IJ.
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E.
Grevelingendam
Grevelingendam is a major dam in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the Delta Works, protecting the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta from flooding while separating the Grevelingenmeer from the North Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: De Dam Description of subject: De Dam is Amsterdam’s central and historic main square, known for its royal palace, national monument, and role as a major public gathering place.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.