Hendrickje Stoffels
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Hendrickje Stoffels was a Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt van Rijn’s longtime companion, model, and muse, frequently appearing in his later paintings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hendrickje Stoffels canonical | 9 |
| Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50836 — 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: Hendrickje Stoffels Context triple: [Rembrandt van Rijn, partner, Hendrickje Stoffels]
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A.
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Saskia van Uylenburgh was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt’s wife and frequent model, who appeared in many of his most intimate and celebrated works.
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B.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a 17th-century Dutch painter renowned for his masterful use of light and color in intimate domestic interior scenes such as "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
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C.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn was a 17th-century Dutch painter and etcher renowned for his masterful use of light and shadow and his deeply expressive portraits, self-portraits, and biblical scenes.
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D.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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E.
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado was a Chilean-Argentine lawyer, politician, and writer best known for authoring the original lyrics of Chile’s national anthem.
- 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: Hendrickje Stoffels Target entity description: Hendrickje Stoffels was a Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt van Rijn’s longtime companion, model, and muse, frequently appearing in his later paintings.
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A.
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Saskia van Uylenburgh was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt’s wife and frequent model, who appeared in many of his most intimate and celebrated works.
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B.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a 17th-century Dutch painter renowned for his masterful use of light and color in intimate domestic interior scenes such as "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
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C.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn was a 17th-century Dutch painter and etcher renowned for his masterful use of light and shadow and his deeply expressive portraits, self-portraits, and biblical scenes.
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D.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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E.
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado was a Chilean-Argentine lawyer, politician, and writer best known for authoring the original lyrics of Chile’s national anthem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Hendrickje Stoffels Description of subject: Hendrickje Stoffels was a Dutch woman best known as Rembrandt van Rijn’s longtime companion, model, and muse, frequently appearing in his later paintings.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels