Jacobus Arminius
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Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch Reformed theologian whose views on free will and predestination gave rise to the theological movement known as Arminianism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacobus Arminius canonical | 14 |
| James Arminius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T181827 — 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: Jacobus Arminius Context triple: [Arminianism, namedAfter, Jacobus Arminius]
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William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
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Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza was a 16th-century French Reformed theologian and scholar who succeeded John Calvin as the leading figure of the Reformed Church in Geneva and a key systematizer of Calvinist doctrine.
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Johannes Voet
Johannes Voet was a prominent 17th–18th century Dutch jurist and legal scholar whose writings became highly influential in the development and interpretation of Roman-Dutch law.
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John Calvin
John Calvin was a 16th-century French theologian and key leader of the Protestant Reformation whose teachings laid the foundations of the Reformed tradition in Christianity.
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William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
- 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: Jacobus Arminius Target entity description: Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch Reformed theologian whose views on free will and predestination gave rise to the theological movement known as Arminianism.
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A.
William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
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B.
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza was a 16th-century French Reformed theologian and scholar who succeeded John Calvin as the leading figure of the Reformed Church in Geneva and a key systematizer of Calvinist doctrine.
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C.
Johannes Voet
Johannes Voet was a prominent 17th–18th century Dutch jurist and legal scholar whose writings became highly influential in the development and interpretation of Roman-Dutch law.
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D.
John Calvin
John Calvin was a 16th-century French theologian and key leader of the Protestant Reformation whose teachings laid the foundations of the Reformed tradition in Christianity.
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E.
William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jacobus Arminius Description of subject: Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch Reformed theologian whose views on free will and predestination gave rise to the theological movement known as Arminianism.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Declaration of Sentiments (Arminius)
this entity surface form:
James Arminius