Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein
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Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat best known as the husband of the influential French-Swiss writer and intellectual Madame de Staël.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4375760 — 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: Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein Context triple: [Madame de Staël, spouse, Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein]
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A.
Johan Skytte
Johan Skytte was a prominent early 17th-century Swedish statesman and educator who served as a key advisor to King Gustavus Adolphus and played a major role in shaping Sweden’s political and educational institutions.
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B.
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie was a powerful 17th-century Swedish statesman and nobleman who served as a leading political figure and patron of the arts during the Swedish Empire’s great power era.
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C.
Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck
Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck was a 17th-century German nobleman and military officer from the influential Königsmarck family.
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D.
Anders Johan von Höpken
Anders Johan von Höpken was an 18th-century Swedish statesman and influential Enlightenment figure who helped shape Sweden’s political and scientific institutions.
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E.
Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm
Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm was a 19th-century German zoologist and naturalist known for his pioneering work in marine biology during the HMS Challenger expedition.
- 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: Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein Target entity description: Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat best known as the husband of the influential French-Swiss writer and intellectual Madame de Staël.
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A.
Johan Skytte
Johan Skytte was a prominent early 17th-century Swedish statesman and educator who served as a key advisor to King Gustavus Adolphus and played a major role in shaping Sweden’s political and educational institutions.
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B.
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie was a powerful 17th-century Swedish statesman and nobleman who served as a leading political figure and patron of the arts during the Swedish Empire’s great power era.
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C.
Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck
Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck was a 17th-century German nobleman and military officer from the influential Königsmarck family.
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D.
Anders Johan von Höpken
Anders Johan von Höpken was an 18th-century Swedish statesman and influential Enlightenment figure who helped shape Sweden’s political and scientific institutions.
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E.
Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm
Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm was a 19th-century German zoologist and naturalist known for his pioneering work in marine biology during the HMS Challenger expedition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Swedish nobleman
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Swedes ⓘ |
| familyName | Staël von Holstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Erik Magnus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Staël von Holstein family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | baron ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of Madame de Staël ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Madame de Staël NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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politician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein
NERFINISHED
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Germaine de Staël NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein Description of subject: Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat best known as the husband of the influential French-Swiss writer and intellectual Madame de Staël.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.