Cornelis van der Wal
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Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelis van der Wal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4591216 — 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: Cornelis van der Wal Context triple: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis van der Wal]
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A.
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch-Swedish troubadour, singer-songwriter, and poet renowned for his influential contributions to Swedish folk and protest music in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Cornelis van der Geest
Cornelis van der Geest was a wealthy early 17th-century Antwerp spice merchant and prominent art collector known for patronizing artists like Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.
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C.
Cornelis Kruseman
Cornelis Kruseman was a 19th-century Dutch painter known for his portraits, historical scenes, and Italian landscapes.
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D.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven
Cornelis van Vollenhoven was a Dutch legal scholar best known for his pioneering work on Indonesian adat (customary) law and his influential contributions to colonial and comparative legal studies.
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E.
Cornelis van der Poel
Cornelis van der Poel was a member of the Dutch van der Poel family, related to the 17th-century painter Egbert van der Poel.
- 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: Cornelis van der Wal Target entity description: Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
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A.
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch-Swedish troubadour, singer-songwriter, and poet renowned for his influential contributions to Swedish folk and protest music in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Cornelis van der Geest
Cornelis van der Geest was a wealthy early 17th-century Antwerp spice merchant and prominent art collector known for patronizing artists like Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.
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C.
Cornelis Kruseman
Cornelis Kruseman was a 19th-century Dutch painter known for his portraits, historical scenes, and Italian landscapes.
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D.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven
Cornelis van Vollenhoven was a Dutch legal scholar best known for his pioneering work on Indonesian adat (customary) law and his influential contributions to colonial and comparative legal studies.
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E.
Cornelis van der Poel
Cornelis van der Poel was a member of the Dutch van der Poel family, related to the 17th-century painter Egbert van der Poel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Frisian-language writer
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person ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Frisian people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | van der Wal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
literary prose
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poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | West Frisian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary Frisian literature ⓘ |
| name | Cornelis van der Wal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature ⓘ |
| notableWorkLanguage | Frisian ⓘ |
| occupation |
poet
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writer ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | Frisian ⓘ |
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: Cornelis van der Wal Description of subject: Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.