De Waal
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De Waal is a small village on the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel in the province of North Holland, known for its rural character and traditional island architecture.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6925803 — 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: De Waal Context triple: [Texel, containsSettlement, De Waal]
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A.
De Wit
De Wit is a Dutch surname commonly borne by individuals of Dutch origin and often associated with historical figures from the Netherlands.
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B.
Scherpenzeel
Scherpenzeel is a small Dutch municipality in the province of Gelderland, known for its rural character and historic village center.
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C.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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D.
Rooseveldt
Rooseveldt is an alternative spelling variant of the surname Roosevelt, most famously associated with U.S. Presidents Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Goudswaard
Goudswaard is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its rural character and location on the island of Hoeksche Waard.
- 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: De Waal Target entity description: De Waal is a small village on the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel in the province of North Holland, known for its rural character and traditional island architecture.
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A.
De Wit
De Wit is a Dutch surname commonly borne by individuals of Dutch origin and often associated with historical figures from the Netherlands.
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B.
Scherpenzeel
Scherpenzeel is a small Dutch municipality in the province of Gelderland, known for its rural character and historic village center.
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C.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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D.
Rooseveldt
Rooseveldt is an alternative spelling variant of the surname Roosevelt, most famously associated with U.S. Presidents Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Goudswaard
Goudswaard is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its rural character and location on the island of Hoeksche Waard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasBuildingStyle |
red-tiled roofs
ⓘ
traditional Texel farmhouses ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural character
ⓘ
small village ⓘ traditional island architecture ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate maritime climate ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivisionCode | NL-NH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalRoadNetworkType | rural roads ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | NH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInNorthernPartOf | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
historic village center
ⓘ
quiet rural atmosphere ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dutch Wadden Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texel NERFINISHED ⓘ province of North Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | municipality of Texel ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWaterRegion | Wadden Sea area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of Texel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| partOf |
North Holland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texel polder landscape NERFINISHED ⓘ West Frisian Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodeRegionOf | 1793 ⓘ |
| roadAccessTo |
Den Burg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oosterend 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: De Waal Description of subject: De Waal is a small village on the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel in the province of North Holland, known for its rural character and traditional island architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de Waal