Willem van der Codde
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Willem van der Codde was a Dutch scholar and theologian associated with Leiden in the early 17th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willem van der Codde canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5000497 — 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: Willem van der Codde Context triple: [Pieterskerk, Leiden, burialPlaceOf, Willem van der Codde]
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A.
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.
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B.
Cornelis van der Spek
Cornelis van der Spek is a person known primarily as a notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis.
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C.
Cornelis van der Wal
Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
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D.
Jan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden was a 17th-century Dutch painter and inventor renowned for his detailed cityscapes and pioneering improvements in firefighting technology and street lighting.
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E.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven
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.
- 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: Willem van der Codde Target entity description: Willem van der Codde was a Dutch scholar and theologian associated with Leiden in the early 17th century.
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A.
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.
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B.
Cornelis van der Spek
Cornelis van der Spek is a person known primarily as a notable bearer of the Dutch given name Cornelis.
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C.
Cornelis van der Wal
Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
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D.
Jan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden was a 17th-century Dutch painter and inventor renowned for his detailed cityscapes and pioneering improvements in firefighting technology and street lighting.
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E.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch person
ⓘ
human ⓘ scholar ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Leiden University
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linked to:
University of Leiden
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| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Leiden University
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linked to:
University of Leiden
|
| fieldOfWork |
classical scholarship
ⓘ
theology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableFor | Dutch Reformed theology ⓘ |
| occupation |
scholar
ⓘ
theologian ⓘ |
| partOf | Dutch Golden Age intellectual culture ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Leiden ⓘ |
| workLocation | Leiden ⓘ |
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: Willem van der Codde Description of subject: Willem van der Codde was a Dutch scholar and theologian associated with Leiden in the early 17th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.