Jacob de Wit
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Jacob de Wit was an 18th-century Dutch painter and draftsman renowned for his Rococo-style religious and mythological works, particularly his ceiling and wall decorations in Amsterdam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob de Wit canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10646743 — 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: Jacob de Wit Context triple: [De Wit, hasNotableBearer, Jacob de Wit]
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A.
Jan de Wit
Jan de Wit is a Dutch computer programmer best known for creating the infamous Anna Kournikova email worm that spread rapidly across the internet in 2001.
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B.
Hans de Wit
Hans de Wit is a prominent Dutch scholar in international higher education, known for his extensive research, publications, and leadership in the field of internationalization of universities.
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C.
Frederik de Wit
Frederik de Wit was a prominent 17th-century Dutch cartographer and publisher renowned for his richly decorated maps and atlases produced during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
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D.
Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Cornelis van Poelenburgh was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his small, finely detailed Italianate landscapes and mythological scenes.
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E.
Cornelis Saftleven
Cornelis Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, landscapes, and satirical works during the Dutch Golden Age.
- 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: Jacob de Wit Target entity description: Jacob de Wit was an 18th-century Dutch painter and draftsman renowned for his Rococo-style religious and mythological works, particularly his ceiling and wall decorations in Amsterdam.
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A.
Jan de Wit
Jan de Wit is a Dutch computer programmer best known for creating the infamous Anna Kournikova email worm that spread rapidly across the internet in 2001.
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B.
Hans de Wit
Hans de Wit is a prominent Dutch scholar in international higher education, known for his extensive research, publications, and leadership in the field of internationalization of universities.
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C.
Frederik de Wit
Frederik de Wit was a prominent 17th-century Dutch cartographer and publisher renowned for his richly decorated maps and atlases produced during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography.
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D.
Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Cornelis van Poelenburgh was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his small, finely detailed Italianate landscapes and mythological scenes.
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E.
Cornelis Saftleven
Cornelis Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, landscapes, and satirical works during the Dutch Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
draftsman
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1754 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1710 ⓘ |
| artisticSchool |
Amsterdam school of decorative painting
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linked to:
Amsterdam school of painting
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| birthDate | 1695-12-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Amsterdam patrician families
ⓘ
Dutch civic institutions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1754-11-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
decorative arts
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mythological art ⓘ religious art ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
ceiling painting
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mythological painting ⓘ religious painting ⓘ wall decoration ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Anthony van Dyck
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Italian Baroque painting ⓘ Peter Paul Rubens ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Rococo-style religious scenes
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grisaille paintings ⓘ illusionistic ceiling paintings ⓘ mythological allegories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Dutch ⓘ |
| movement |
Baroque
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Rococo ⓘ |
| name | Jacob de Wit ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ceiling and wall decorations in Amsterdam canal houses
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ceiling paintings in the Amsterdam Town Hall (Royal Palace on Dam Square) ⓘ paintings in the Huis van Brienen (Herengracht, Amsterdam) ⓘ paintings in the Palace of Soestdijk ⓘ paintings in the Trippenhuis, Amsterdam ⓘ |
| occupation |
draftsman
ⓘ
painter ⓘ |
| residence | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Albert van Spiers
ⓘ
Jacob van Hal ⓘ |
| style |
Baroque-influenced composition
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Rococo decorative painting ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Amsterdam
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The Hague ⓘ |
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