Cornelis van Vollenhoven

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Dutch person human legal scholar

Cornelis van Vollenhoven was a Dutch legal scholar best known for his pioneering work on Indonesian adat (customary) law and his influential contributions to colonial and comparative legal studies.

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Label	Occurrences
van Vollenhoven	7
Cornelis van Vollenhoven canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4591215 — 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.

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Target entity: Cornelis van Vollenhoven
Context triple: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis van Vollenhoven]

A. Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch-Swedish troubadour, singer-songwriter, and poet renowned for his influential contributions to Swedish folk and protest music in the 1960s and 1970s.
B. Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
C. Gerrit van der Heyden
Gerrit van der Heyden was a Dutch Golden Age figure known primarily as the brother of the renowned painter and inventor Jan van der Heyden.
D. Cornelis van der Poel
Cornelis van der Poel was a member of the Dutch van der Poel family, related to the 17th-century painter Egbert van der Poel.
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: Cornelis van Vollenhoven
Target entity description: Cornelis van Vollenhoven was a Dutch legal scholar best known for his pioneering work on Indonesian adat (customary) law and his influential contributions to colonial and comparative legal studies.

A. Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch-Swedish troubadour, singer-songwriter, and poet renowned for his influential contributions to Swedish folk and protest music in the 1960s and 1970s.
B. Pieter Cort van der Linden
Pieter Cort van der Linden was a Dutch liberal statesman who served as prime minister during World War I and is known for overseeing major democratic reforms in the Netherlands.
C. Gerrit van der Heyden
Gerrit van der Heyden was a Dutch Golden Age figure known primarily as the brother of the renowned painter and inventor Jan van der Heyden.
D. Cornelis van der Poel
Cornelis van der Poel was a member of the Dutch van der Poel family, related to the 17th-century painter Egbert van der Poel.
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 (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Dutch person ⓘ human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ
academicDiscipline	jurisprudence ⓘ legal history ⓘ public law ⓘ
areaOfInfluence	Dutch East Indies legal policy ⓘ development of legal pluralism concepts ⓘ
contributedTo	foundations of modern Indonesian legal studies ⓘ recognition of adat law in Dutch colonial jurisprudence ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Netherlands ⓘ
employer	Leiden University ⓘ linked to: University of Leiden
familyName	van Vollenhoven ⓘ linked to: Cornelis van Vollenhoven
fieldOfWork	Indonesian adat law ⓘ colonial law ⓘ comparative law ⓘ law ⓘ
genre	academic writing ⓘ legal scholarship ⓘ
givenName	Cornelis ⓘ
hasNotableSubject	adat law ⓘ colonial administration ⓘ comparative legal systems ⓘ customary law ⓘ
influenced	comparative law approaches to colonial contexts ⓘ later scholarship on legal pluralism ⓘ
knownFor	influential contributions to colonial legal studies ⓘ influential contributions to comparative legal studies ⓘ pioneering research on Indonesian adat (customary) law ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ German ⓘ
movement	legal pluralism ⓘ
name	Cornelis van Vollenhoven ⓘ
nationality	Dutch ⓘ
notableIdea	recognition of indigenous customary law within colonial legal systems ⓘ systematic classification of Indonesian adat law areas ⓘ
occupation	jurist ⓘ university professor ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Dutch East Indies ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ
studied	Indonesian customary legal systems ⓘ relationship between colonial law and indigenous law ⓘ
workLocation	Leiden ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ

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