Roger de Graaf
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Roger de Graaf is a Dutch music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential electronic dance music label Spinnin' Records.
All labels observed (1)
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| Roger de Graaf canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9668212 — 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: Roger de Graaf Context triple: [Spinnin' Records, foundedBy, Roger de Graaf]
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A.
Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
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B.
Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known for his work on large-scale urban projects and his critical writings on contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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C.
Johannes van den Bosch
Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
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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.
Hendrik van den Bergh
Hendrik van den Bergh was a 17th-century Dutch-born nobleman and military commander who served the Spanish Habsburgs during the Eighty Years' War.
- 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: Roger de Graaf Target entity description: Roger de Graaf is a Dutch music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential electronic dance music label Spinnin' Records.
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A.
Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
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B.
Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known for his work on large-scale urban projects and his critical writings on contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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C.
Johannes van den Bosch
Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
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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.
Hendrik van den Bergh
Hendrik van den Bergh was a 17th-century Dutch-born nobleman and military commander who served the Spanish Habsburgs during the Eighty Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic dance music label
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human ⓘ music executive ⓘ record label ⓘ record label founder ⓘ |
| basedIn | Netherlands ⓘ |
| coFounded | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electronic dance music
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record label management ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Roger de Graaf ⓘ |
| genre |
EDM
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electronic dance music ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
EDM
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electronic dance music ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing Spinnin' Records into a leading EDM label ⓘ |
| notableWork | Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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music executive ⓘ record executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-owner of Spinnin' Records
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executive at Spinnin' Records ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hilversum ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Roger de Graaf Description of subject: Roger de Graaf is a Dutch music executive 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.
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Roger de Graaf