Cornelis van der Meulen
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Cornelis van der Meulen is a relatively obscure historical figure known primarily through records that note him as a notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelis van der Meulen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4591218 — 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 Meulen Context triple: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis van der Meulen]
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A.
Cornelis Saftleven
Cornelis Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, landscapes, and satirical works during the Dutch Golden Age.
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B.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
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C.
Cornelis de Vos
Cornelis de Vos was a prominent Flemish Baroque painter known for his refined portraits and religious scenes in early 17th-century Antwerp.
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D.
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert was a 16th-century Dutch humanist, theologian, writer, and engraver known for his advocacy of religious tolerance and influence on the Dutch Reformation.
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E.
Cornelis Kruseman
Cornelis Kruseman was a 19th-century Dutch painter known for his portraits, historical scenes, and Italian landscapes.
- 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 Meulen Target entity description: Cornelis van der Meulen is a relatively obscure historical figure known primarily through records that note him as a notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis.
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A.
Cornelis Saftleven
Cornelis Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, landscapes, and satirical works during the Dutch Golden Age.
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B.
Dirck van Bleyswijck
Dirck van Bleyswijck was a 17th-century Dutch writer and city official from Delft, best known for his detailed topographical and historical description of the city.
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C.
Cornelis de Vos
Cornelis de Vos was a prominent Flemish Baroque painter known for his refined portraits and religious scenes in early 17th-century Antwerp.
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D.
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert was a 16th-century Dutch humanist, theologian, writer, and engraver known for his advocacy of religious tolerance and influence on the Dutch Reformation.
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E.
Cornelis Kruseman
Cornelis Kruseman was a 19th-century Dutch painter known for his portraits, historical scenes, and Italian landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameComponent | van der Meulen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| notability | notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis ⓘ |
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 Meulen Description of subject: Cornelis van der Meulen is a relatively obscure historical figure known primarily through records that note him as a notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.