Tulp
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Tulp is the surname of Nicolaes Tulp, a notable 17th-century Dutch physician and Amsterdam civic leader famously depicted in Rembrandt’s painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tulp canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1221633 — 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: Tulp Context triple: [Nicolaes Tulp, familyName, Tulp]
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A.
Milbanke
Milbanke is an English aristocratic family name historically associated with the wife of poet Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke.
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B.
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
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C.
Wilella
Wilella is the full given name of American novelist Willa Cather, renowned for her works depicting frontier life on the Great Plains.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Spyri
Spyri is the surname of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's book character Heidi.
- 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: Tulp Target entity description: Tulp is the surname of Nicolaes Tulp, a notable 17th-century Dutch physician and Amsterdam civic leader famously depicted in Rembrandt’s painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp."
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A.
Milbanke
Milbanke is an English aristocratic family name historically associated with the wife of poet Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke.
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B.
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
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C.
Wilella
Wilella is the full given name of American novelist Willa Cather, renowned for her works depicting frontier life on the Great Plains.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Spyri
Spyri is the surname of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's book character Heidi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ painting ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ surgeon ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Dutch Republic
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Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| creator |
Rembrandt van Rijn
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surface form:
Rembrandt
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| dateOfBirth | 1593 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1674 ⓘ |
| depicts |
Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
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surface form:
Nicolaes Tulp
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| educatedAt |
University of Leiden
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surface form:
Leiden University
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| familyName | Tulp self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anatomy
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medicine ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| genre | group portrait ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicolaes ⓘ |
| inception | 1632 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Dutch
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surface form:
Dutch language
|
| location | Mauritshuis ⓘ |
| mainSubject | public dissection ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
ⓘ
surface form:
Nicolaes Tulp
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| notableFor |
being subject of Rembrandt painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp"
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role in Amsterdam civic government ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Observationes medicae
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surface form:
Observationes Medicae
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| occupation |
civic official
ⓘ
painter ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| participantIn | Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
burgomaster of Amsterdam
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praelector of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons ⓘ |
| religion | Calvinism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
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surface form:
Nicolaes Tulp
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| workLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
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: Tulp Description of subject: Tulp is the surname of Nicolaes Tulp, a notable 17th-century Dutch physician and Amsterdam civic leader famously depicted in Rembrandt’s painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nicolaes Tulp
subject surface form:
Nicolaes Tulp