Douwe Bob van der Meer
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Douwe Bob van der Meer is a Dutch singer-songwriter best known for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Slow Down."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douwe Bob van der Meer canonical | 2 |
| Douwe Bob Posthuma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7668355 — 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: Douwe Bob van der Meer Context triple: [van der Meer, hasNotableBearer, Douwe Bob van der Meer]
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A.
Martijn Krabbé
Martijn Krabbé is a Dutch television presenter best known for hosting popular talent and reality shows in the Netherlands.
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B.
Kees van Kooten
Kees van Kooten is a Dutch writer, satirist, and comedian known for his influential work in literature and television, often created in collaboration with Wim de Bie.
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C.
Arie van Bennekum
Arie van Bennekum is a Dutch agile thought leader and consultant best known as one of the original co-authors of the Agile Manifesto.
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D.
Willy Kuijpers
Willy Kuijpers was a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician known for his long-standing advocacy of Flemish autonomy and his role in both national and European politics.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- 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: Douwe Bob van der Meer Target entity description: Douwe Bob van der Meer is a Dutch singer-songwriter best known for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Slow Down."
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A.
Martijn Krabbé
Martijn Krabbé is a Dutch television presenter best known for hosting popular talent and reality shows in the Netherlands.
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B.
Kees van Kooten
Kees van Kooten is a Dutch writer, satirist, and comedian known for his influential work in literature and television, often created in collaboration with Wim de Bie.
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C.
Arie van Bennekum
Arie van Bennekum is a Dutch agile thought leader and consultant best known as one of the original co-authors of the Agile Manifesto.
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D.
Willy Kuijpers
Willy Kuijpers was a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician known for his long-standing advocacy of Flemish autonomy and his role in both national and European politics.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| competition | Eurovision Song Contest ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| familyName | van der Meer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
ⓘ
folk music ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| givenName |
Douwe
ⓘ
linked to:
Douwe Bob
|
| hasPartInDiscography |
singles
ⓘ
studio albums ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| name | Douwe Bob van der Meer ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableFor | representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Slow Down ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| participantIn | Eurovision Song Contest 2016 ⓘ |
| performanceRole | representative of the Netherlands at Eurovision Song Contest 2016 ⓘ |
| performedSong | Slow Down ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Netherlands ⓘ |
| represented | Netherlands ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Douwe Bob ⓘ |
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: Douwe Bob van der Meer Description of subject: Douwe Bob van der Meer is a Dutch singer-songwriter best known for representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Slow Down."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.