Oostendam
E695527
Oostendam is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland that forms part of the municipality of Ridderkerk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oostendam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7799554 — 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: Oostendam Context triple: [Ridderkerk, hasSubdivision, Oostendam]
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A.
Oesterdam
Oesterdam is a major Dutch dam and storm surge barrier that forms part of the Delta Works coastal defense system in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
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B.
Lusitania
Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
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C.
SS Cap Arcona
SS Cap Arcona was a German luxury ocean liner later used by the Nazis as a transport ship during World War II, most infamously when it was sunk in 1945 with thousands of concentration camp prisoners aboard.
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D.
SS Mont-Blanc
SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
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E.
RMS Baltic (1903)
RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
- 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: Oostendam Target entity description: Oostendam is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland that forms part of the municipality of Ridderkerk.
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A.
Oesterdam
Oesterdam is a major Dutch dam and storm surge barrier that forms part of the Delta Works coastal defense system in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
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B.
Lusitania
Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
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C.
SS Cap Arcona
SS Cap Arcona was a German luxury ocean liner later used by the Nazis as a transport ship during World War II, most infamously when it was sunk in 1945 with thousands of concentration camp prisoners aboard.
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D.
SS Mont-Blanc
SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
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E.
RMS Baltic (1903)
RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 0180 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | WGS84 ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | province of South Holland ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalCouncil | Ridderkerk municipal council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterBody |
River Noord floodplains
ⓘ
Waal (canalized branch) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 2989 ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Rijnmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Reformed Church of Oostendam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection |
A16 motorway (nearby)
ⓘ
N915 ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfGovernment | municipal government of Ridderkerk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInEuropeanUnion | true ⓘ |
| isInSchengenArea | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ridderkerk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Holland ⓘ Western Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
western Netherlands
|
| locatedNear |
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ridderkerk (town) NERFINISHED ⓘ River Noord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of IJsselmonde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | municipality of Ridderkerk ⓘ |
| timezone | CET ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
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: Oostendam Description of subject: Oostendam is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland that forms part of the municipality of Ridderkerk.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.