de Groot
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De Groot is a Dutch surname most famously associated with the jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius (Hugo de Groot), a foundational figure in international law.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2801927 — 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: de Groot Context triple: [Hugo de Groot, familyName, de Groot]
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Bete Denagel
Bete Denagel is one of the rock-hewn monolithic churches in the historic Ethiopian town of Lalibela, renowned for its medieval Christian architecture and religious significance.
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B.
Evert
Evert is a given name and surname of Germanic origin, used as a variant of names like Everett.
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Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth is a German actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in historical dramas and international productions.
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Toni Merkens
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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E.
Jo Willems
Jo Willems is a Belgian cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the horror movie "30 Days of Night," as well as music videos and television projects.
- 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: de Groot Target entity description: De Groot is a Dutch surname most famously associated with the jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius (Hugo de Groot), a foundational figure in international law.
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A.
Bete Denagel
Bete Denagel is one of the rock-hewn monolithic churches in the historic Ethiopian town of Lalibela, renowned for its medieval Christian architecture and religious significance.
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B.
Evert
Evert is a given name and surname of Germanic origin, used as a variant of names like Everett.
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C.
Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth is a German actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in historical dramas and international productions.
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D.
Toni Merkens
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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E.
Jo Willems
Jo Willems is a Belgian cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the horror movie "30 Days of Night," as well as music videos and television projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-language surname
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diplomat ⓘ founder of a discipline ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ surname ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hugo Grotius
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Huig de Groot ⓘ |
| citizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | County of Holland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1583-04-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1645-08-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Leiden
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surface form:
Leiden University
|
| fieldOfWork |
international law
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natural law ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Hugo de Groot ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of international law
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theory of just war ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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Stoicism ⓘ
surface form:
Stoic philosophy
|
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| meaning | the great ⓘ |
| movement | early modern natural law ⓘ |
| notableEvent | escape from Loevestein Castle in a book chest ⓘ |
| notableWork |
De iure belli ac pacis
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Mare Liberum ⓘ Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Delft ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rostock ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Swedish ambassador to France
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pensionary of Rotterdam ⓘ |
| religion |
Remonstrants
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surface form:
Remonstrant
|
| spouse | Maria van Reigersberch ⓘ |
| variantForm |
de Groot
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
De Groot
Degroot ⓘ |
| wroteInLanguage |
Dutch
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Latin ⓘ |
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: de Groot Description of subject: De Groot is a Dutch surname most famously associated with the jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius (Hugo de Groot), a foundational figure in international law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
De Groot