Johan de Witt Jr.
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Johan de Witt Jr. was a Dutch nobleman and politician from the influential De Witt family, known as the son of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johan de Witt Jr. canonical | 2 |
| Johan de Witt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T393667 — 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: Johan de Witt Jr. Context triple: [Johan de Witt, child, Johan de Witt Jr.]
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A.
Johan de Witt
Johan de Witt was a leading 17th-century Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland, known for guiding the Dutch Republic during its “Golden Age” and shaping its foreign policy and alliances.
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B.
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was a leading Dutch statesman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who played a key role in the Dutch struggle for independence and the formation of the Dutch Republic.
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C.
Cornelis de Witt
Cornelis de Witt was a prominent 17th-century Dutch statesman and republican leader who, alongside his brother Johan de Witt, played a central role in the politics of the Dutch Republic before being murdered during the political turmoil of 1672.
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D.
Anna de Witt
Anna de Witt was a member of the prominent Dutch De Witt family of the 17th century, known primarily as a daughter of the influential statesman Johan de Witt.
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E.
Jacob de Witt
Jacob de Witt was a Dutch regent and politician of the Dutch Golden Age, best known as the father of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and a prominent member of the influential De Witt family.
- 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: Johan de Witt Jr. Target entity description: Johan de Witt Jr. was a Dutch nobleman and politician from the influential De Witt family, known as the son of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt.
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A.
Johan de Witt
Johan de Witt was a leading 17th-century Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland, known for guiding the Dutch Republic during its “Golden Age” and shaping its foreign policy and alliances.
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B.
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was a leading Dutch statesman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who played a key role in the Dutch struggle for independence and the formation of the Dutch Republic.
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C.
Cornelis de Witt
Cornelis de Witt was a prominent 17th-century Dutch statesman and republican leader who, alongside his brother Johan de Witt, played a central role in the politics of the Dutch Republic before being murdered during the political turmoil of 1672.
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D.
Anna de Witt
Anna de Witt was a member of the prominent Dutch De Witt family of the 17th century, known primarily as a daughter of the influential statesman Johan de Witt.
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E.
Jacob de Witt
Jacob de Witt was a Dutch regent and politician of the Dutch Golden Age, best known as the father of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and a prominent member of the influential De Witt family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch nobleman
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch people ⓘ |
| familyName | De Witt ⓘ |
| father | Johan de Witt ⓘ |
| givenName | Johan ⓘ |
| memberOf | De Witt family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | nobleman ⓘ |
| notableFamily | De Witt family ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| relative | Johan de Witt ⓘ |
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: Johan de Witt Jr. Description of subject: Johan de Witt Jr. was a Dutch nobleman and politician from the influential De Witt family, known as the son of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Johan de Witt Jr.