Neeltje Jans
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Neeltje Jans was the wife of famed Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter and a 17th-century Dutch woman about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to her prominent husband.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neeltje Jans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839418 — 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: Neeltje Jans Context triple: [Michiel de Ruyter, spouse, Neeltje Jans]
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A.
Hendrickje
Hendrickje is a feminine given name most famously associated with Hendrickje Stoffels, the longtime partner and muse of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
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B.
Suzanna van Baerle
Suzanna van Baerle was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as the wife and intellectual companion of poet, composer, and diplomat Constantijn Huygens.
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C.
Cornelia van Rijn
Cornelia van Rijn was the daughter of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn and his partner Hendrickje Stoffels, known primarily through her connection to the artist’s life and legacy.
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D.
Antje van Uylenburgh
Antje van Uylenburgh was a member of the prominent Uylenburgh family of Friesland in the Dutch Republic, related to Rembrandt’s wife Saskia and connected to the artist’s social circle.
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E.
Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff
Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff was the wife of Boer general Koos de la Rey, a prominent figure in South African history during the Second Boer War.
- 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: Neeltje Jans Target entity description: Neeltje Jans was the wife of famed Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter and a 17th-century Dutch woman about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to her prominent husband.
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A.
Hendrickje
Hendrickje is a feminine given name most famously associated with Hendrickje Stoffels, the longtime partner and muse of the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
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B.
Suzanna van Baerle
Suzanna van Baerle was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as the wife and intellectual companion of poet, composer, and diplomat Constantijn Huygens.
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C.
Cornelia van Rijn
Cornelia van Rijn was the daughter of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn and his partner Hendrickje Stoffels, known primarily through her connection to the artist’s life and legacy.
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D.
Antje van Uylenburgh
Antje van Uylenburgh was a member of the prominent Uylenburgh family of Friesland in the Dutch Republic, related to Rembrandt’s wife Saskia and connected to the artist’s social circle.
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E.
Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff
Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff was the wife of Boer general Koos de la Rey, a prominent figure in South African history during the Second Boer War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century Dutch woman
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| historicalDocumentation | sparse ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the wife of Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Michiel de Ruyter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| spouse |
Michiel de Ruyter
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Neeltje Jans self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Neeltje Jans Description of subject: Neeltje Jans was the wife of famed Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter and a 17th-century Dutch woman about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to her prominent husband.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michiel de Ruyter