Simon Hendrik Spoor
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Simon Hendrik Spoor was a Dutch general who served as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Hendrik Spoor canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1333169 — 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: Simon Hendrik Spoor Context triple: [First Dutch Police Action, commandedBy, Simon Hendrik Spoor]
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A.
Hendrik Schoeman
Hendrik Schoeman was a prominent South African politician and Boer leader who served as a government minister in the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
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B.
Eric Cradock
Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
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C.
Daniel François Malan
Daniel François Malan was a South African politician and prime minister best known for leading the National Party government that formally instituted apartheid in 1948.
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D.
Koos de la Rey
Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
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E.
Butch van Breda Kolff
Butch van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for his successful collegiate coaching career and for leading the Los Angeles Lakers during the late 1960s.
- 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: Simon Hendrik Spoor Target entity description: Simon Hendrik Spoor was a Dutch general who served as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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A.
Hendrik Schoeman
Hendrik Schoeman was a prominent South African politician and Boer leader who served as a government minister in the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
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B.
Eric Cradock
Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
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C.
Daniel François Malan
Daniel François Malan was a South African politician and prime minister best known for leading the National Party government that formally instituted apartheid in 1948.
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D.
Koos de la Rey
Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
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E.
Butch van Breda Kolff
Butch van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for his successful collegiate coaching career and for leading the Los Angeles Lakers during the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Simon Hendrik Spoor Description of subject: Simon Hendrik Spoor was a Dutch general who served as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.