Wouter
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Wouter is a Dutch historian of religion and leading scholar of Western esotericism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wouter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5116685 — 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: Wouter Context triple: [Wouter J. Hanegraaff, givenName, Wouter]
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Adriaan
Adriaan is a masculine given name of Dutch origin commonly used in the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking regions.
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Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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Maarten
Maarten is a Dutch masculine given name, historically borne by notable figures such as the 17th-century admiral Maarten Tromp.
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D.
Andries
Andries is a Dutch given name traditionally used for men, equivalent to Andrew in English.
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Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
- 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: Wouter Target entity description: Wouter is a Dutch historian of religion and leading scholar of Western esotericism.
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A.
Adriaan
Adriaan is a masculine given name of Dutch origin commonly used in the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking regions.
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B.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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C.
Maarten
Maarten is a Dutch masculine given name, historically borne by notable figures such as the 17th-century admiral Maarten Tromp.
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D.
Andries
Andries is a Dutch given name traditionally used for men, equivalent to Andrew in English.
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E.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historian of religion
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person ⓘ scholar of Western esotericism ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | history of ideas ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| areaOfExpertise |
Hermeticism
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Western esoteric currents in modernity ⓘ relationship between esotericism and academia ⓘ |
| citizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| countryOfEmployment | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | University of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| familyName | Hanegraaff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Western esotericism
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esotericism studies ⓘ history of religion ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wouter ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | full professor ⓘ |
| hasRole |
lecturer
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researcher ⓘ supervisor of graduate students ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historical analysis of New Age movements
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integrating esotericism into the study of Western culture ⓘ systematic study of Western esotericism as an academic field ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
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English ⓘ |
| name | Wouter J. Hanegraaff ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notability | leading scholar of Western esotericism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Esotericism and the Academy
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Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination ⓘ New Age Religion and Western Culture ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Netherlands ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Western Europe
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international scholarship on esotericism ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
New Age religion
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esoteric currents in Western culture ⓘ occultism ⓘ |
| workLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Wouter Description of subject: Wouter is a Dutch historian of religion and leading scholar of Western esotericism.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.