Willem

E6688

Dutch given name given name male given name

Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Willem canonical	38
Wim	4
Guglielmo	2
Carel	1
Vilhelm	1
Wilhelm	1
Wilhelmus	1
Willahelm	1
Willelm	1
Willem Batavus	1

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Dutch given name ⓘ given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ
correspondsTo	William ⓘ
derivedFrom	Willahelm ⓘ
gender	masculine ⓘ
hasCategory	Dutch masculine given names ⓘ Masculine given names ⓘ
hasCognate	Guglielmo ⓘ Guillaume ⓘ Guillermo ⓘ Wilhelm ⓘ surface form: Vilhelm Wilhelm ⓘ William ⓘ
hasLanguage	Afrikaans ⓘ Dutch ⓘ
hasMeaning	resolute protector ⓘ will-helmet ⓘ
hasNotableBearer	Willem Barentsz ⓘ Willem Dafoe ⓘ Willem Einthoven ⓘ Willem de Kooning ⓘ Willem-Alexander ⓘ surface form: Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
hasOriginLanguage	Old High German ⓘ
hasShortForm	Bill ⓘ Bill ⓘ surface form: Billy Wil ⓘ Will ⓘ Willy ⓘ Willem self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Wim
hasVariant	Guillaume ⓘ Wilhelm ⓘ William ⓘ
usedInRegion	Belgium ⓘ Flanders ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Suriname ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ

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: Willem
Description of subject: Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.

Referenced by (51)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

William → derivedFrom → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willahelm

William → hasVariant → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guglielmo

William → hasVariant → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vilhelm

William → cognate → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wilhelm

William → cognate → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guglielmo

William → cognate → Willem ⓘ

Willem → hasShortForm → Willem self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wim

William II of the Netherlands → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Carel Fabritius → givenName → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Carel

Herman Willem Daendels → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Drees → givenName → Willem ⓘ

F. W. de Klerk → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem de Kooning → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Wil → shortFormOf → Willem ⓘ

Wil → relatedName → Willem ⓘ

Guglielmo → hasCognate → Willem ⓘ

Willem Einthoven → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willahelm → isHistoricalRootOf → Willem ⓘ

Willahelm → isRelatedFormOf → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willelm

Willahelm → hasModernDescendant → Willem ⓘ

Wilhelm → equivalentForm → Willem ⓘ

Wilhelm → hasVariant → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wilhelmus

Willem de Sitter → givenName → Willem ⓘ

William V, Prince of Orange → fullName → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willem Batavus

Willem van Nassau → givenName → Willem ⓘ

William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Wim Kok → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Wim Kok → nickname → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wim

Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Drees Jr. → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Albemarle, 2nd Earl of Albemarle → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Carbentus → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Marinus Dudok → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Hendrik → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Frederik → hasGivenName → Willem ⓘ

subject surface form: Frederik Willem de Klerk

Willem Arnold Alting → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Einthoven → givenName → Willem ⓘ

subject surface form: Willem Einthoven

Lammers → givenName → Willem ⓘ

subject surface form: Willem Lammers

Vos → givenName → Willem ⓘ

subject surface form: Willem Vos

Willem Mengelberg → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Louw → hasGivenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Bilderdijk → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Wim Wenders → nickname → Willem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wim

Willem V, Prins van Oranje → givenName → Willem ⓘ

William George Frederick of Orange-Nassau → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem de Zwijger → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Jacobsz Delff → givenName → Willem ⓘ

Willem Drost → givenName → Willem ⓘ