Menno Meyjes
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Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter and director best known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "The Color Purple."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Menno Meyjes canonical | 11 |
| Menno | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1818692 — 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: Menno Meyjes Context triple: [Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, storyBy, Menno Meyjes]
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A.
Jeremias van Riemsdijk
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was an 18th-century Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who played a key role in the administration of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia.
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B.
Dominie Hendrik Scholte
Dominie Hendrik Scholte was a 19th-century Dutch religious leader and founder of the Dutch immigrant settlement in Pella, Iowa, known for his role in leading a group of seceders from the Dutch Reformed Church to America.
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C.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
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D.
Hendrik de Vries
Hendrik de Vries was a mathematician who supervised and mentored the influential algebraist Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.
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E.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
- 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: Menno Meyjes Target entity description: Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter and director best known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "The Color Purple."
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A.
Jeremias van Riemsdijk
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was an 18th-century Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who played a key role in the administration of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia.
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B.
Dominie Hendrik Scholte
Dominie Hendrik Scholte was a 19th-century Dutch religious leader and founder of the Dutch immigrant settlement in Pella, Iowa, known for his role in leading a group of seceders from the Dutch Reformed Church to America.
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C.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
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D.
Hendrik de Vries
Hendrik de Vries was a mathematician who supervised and mentored the influential algebraist Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.
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E.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Menno Meyjes Description of subject: Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter and director best known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "The Color Purple."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Color Purple
linked to: Menno Meyjes
subject linked to:
Anthony Hubbard – Denzel Washington
subject linked to:
Anthony Hubbard – Denzel Washington
subject linked to:
The Color Purple franchise
subject linked to:
Meyjes