Willem Jacob van de Graaf
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Willem Jacob van de Graaf was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
All labels observed (1)
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| Willem Jacob van de Graaf canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15935890 — 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: Willem Jacob van de Graaf Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Willem Jacob van de Graaf]
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A.
Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff
Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon and later as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
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B.
Cornelius Leyden
Cornelius Leyden is a mystery writer who becomes obsessively drawn into investigating the life and death of the criminal Dimitrios in Eric Ambler’s novel "The Mask of Dimitrios."
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C.
Pieter van Musschenbroek
Pieter van Musschenbroek was an 18th-century Dutch scientist best known for co-inventing the Leyden jar, one of the earliest devices capable of storing electrical charge.
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D.
Herman Tjeenk Willink
Herman Tjeenk Willink is a Dutch politician and former vice president of the Council of State, known for his influential role as a government adviser and informateur in cabinet formations.
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E.
Gustav de Vries
Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician best known for co-formulating the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation, a fundamental nonlinear partial differential equation in mathematical physics.
- 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: Willem Jacob van de Graaf Target entity description: Willem Jacob van de Graaf was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon under the Dutch East India Company.
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A.
Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff
Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff was an 18th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of Ceylon and later as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
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B.
Cornelius Leyden
Cornelius Leyden is a mystery writer who becomes obsessively drawn into investigating the life and death of the criminal Dimitrios in Eric Ambler’s novel "The Mask of Dimitrios."
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C.
Pieter van Musschenbroek
Pieter van Musschenbroek was an 18th-century Dutch scientist best known for co-inventing the Leyden jar, one of the earliest devices capable of storing electrical charge.
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D.
Herman Tjeenk Willink
Herman Tjeenk Willink is a Dutch politician and former vice president of the Council of State, known for his influential role as a government adviser and informateur in cabinet formations.
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E.
Gustav de Vries
Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician best known for co-formulating the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation, a fundamental nonlinear partial differential equation in mathematical physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
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