Eelko van Kooten
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Eelko van Kooten is a Dutch music executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the influential electronic dance music label Spinnin' Records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eelko van Kooten canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9668211 — 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: Eelko van Kooten Context triple: [Spinnin' Records, foundedBy, Eelko van Kooten]
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A.
Piet Klijnveld
Piet Klijnveld was a Dutch accountant and entrepreneur who co-founded the international professional services firm that later became part of KPMG.
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B.
Jurriaan de Jonge
Jurriaan de Jonge is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Dutch surname "de Jonge."
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C.
Piet de Jong
Piet de Jong was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971.
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D.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
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E.
Piet Keizer
Piet Keizer was a renowned Dutch footballer, best known as a skillful left winger for Ajax and the Netherlands national team during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Eelko van Kooten Target entity description: Eelko van Kooten is a Dutch music executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the influential electronic dance music label Spinnin' Records.
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A.
Piet Klijnveld
Piet Klijnveld was a Dutch accountant and entrepreneur who co-founded the international professional services firm that later became part of KPMG.
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B.
Jurriaan de Jonge
Jurriaan de Jonge is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Dutch surname "de Jonge."
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C.
Piet de Jong
Piet de Jong was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971.
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D.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
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E.
Piet Keizer
Piet Keizer was a renowned Dutch footballer, best known as a skillful left winger for Ajax and the Netherlands national team during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ music executive ⓘ record label founder ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dutch electronic dance music scene
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independent record labels ⓘ international DJ community ⓘ |
| basedIn | Netherlands ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
artist management
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music publishing ⓘ record distribution ⓘ |
| businessRole |
A&R executive
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label manager ⓘ music rights entrepreneur ⓘ |
| coFounded | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music business
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record label management ⓘ |
| founded | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
EDM
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electronic dance music ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
electronic dance music
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music industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
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English ⓘ |
| name | Eelko van Kooten ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helping launch careers of prominent EDM DJs through Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| notableFor |
building one of the world’s largest independent dance labels
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developing Spinnin' Records into a leading EDM label ⓘ |
| notableWork | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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music executive ⓘ record label owner ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Spinnin' Records
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founder of Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| typeOfBusinessFounded |
music publishing company
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record label ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Amsterdam
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Hilversum ⓘ |
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: Eelko van Kooten Description of subject: Eelko van Kooten is a Dutch music executive and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the influential electronic dance music label Spinnin' Records.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.