Mayken Coecke van Aelst
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Mayken Coecke van Aelst was a 16th-century Flemish woman from an important artistic family, known primarily as the wife of painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and daughter of painter and designer Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mayken Coecke van Aelst canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5684826 — 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: Mayken Coecke van Aelst Context triple: [Pieter Bruegel the Elder, spouse, Mayken Coecke van Aelst]
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A.
Catharina van der Goes
Catharina van der Goes was a Dutch woman of the early 17th century, known primarily as the mother of Maria van Reigersberch, the wife of statesman Hugo Grotius.
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B.
Willem van Aelst
Willem van Aelst was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his refined still lifes, particularly of flowers, game, and luxurious objects.
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C.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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D.
Margareta van Eyck
Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
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E.
Dirck van Mierevelt
Dirck van Mierevelt was a prominent Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, renowned for his depictions of political and intellectual figures of the Dutch Republic.
- 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: Mayken Coecke van Aelst Target entity description: Mayken Coecke van Aelst was a 16th-century Flemish woman from an important artistic family, known primarily as the wife of painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and daughter of painter and designer Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
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A.
Catharina van der Goes
Catharina van der Goes was a Dutch woman of the early 17th century, known primarily as the mother of Maria van Reigersberch, the wife of statesman Hugo Grotius.
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B.
Willem van Aelst
Willem van Aelst was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his refined still lifes, particularly of flowers, game, and luxurious objects.
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C.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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D.
Margareta van Eyck
Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
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E.
Dirck van Mierevelt
Dirck van Mierevelt was a prominent Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, renowned for his depictions of political and intellectual figures of the Dutch Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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Flemish person ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| child |
Jan Brueghel the Elder
NERFINISHED
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Flemish Renaissance ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Flemish ⓘ |
| familyName | Coecke van Aelst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Pieter Coecke van Aelst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 16th century ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mayken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being daughter of Pieter Coecke van Aelst
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being member of a prominent Flemish artistic family ⓘ being wife of Pieter Bruegel the Elder ⓘ |
| languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned | Dutch ⓘ |
| mother | Mayken Verhulst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Brueghel family
NERFINISHED
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Coecke van Aelst family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | member of artist family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brussels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Brussels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Jan Brueghel the Elder
NERFINISHED
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Mayken Verhulst NERFINISHED ⓘ Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ Pieter Brueghel the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ Pieter Coecke van Aelst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mayken Coecke van Aelst Description of subject: Mayken Coecke van Aelst was a 16th-century Flemish woman from an important artistic family, known primarily as the wife of painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and daughter of painter and designer Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.