Hendrik van der Meer
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Hendrik van der Meer is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Dutch surname "van der Meer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hendrik van der Meer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7668361 — 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: Hendrik van der Meer Context triple: [van der Meer, hasNotableBearer, Hendrik van der Meer]
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A.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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B.
Jan van der Meer
Jan van der Meer is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, typically of Dutch origin, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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C.
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to support Anne Frank and the others hiding in the Secret Annex during World War II.
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D.
Jurriaan de Jonge
Jurriaan de Jonge is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Dutch surname "de Jonge."
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E.
Hendrik de Vries
Hendrik de Vries was a mathematician who supervised and mentored the influential algebraist Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.
- 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: Hendrik van der Meer Target entity description: Hendrik van der Meer is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Dutch surname "van der Meer."
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A.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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B.
Jan van der Meer
Jan van der Meer is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, typically of Dutch origin, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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C.
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to support Anne Frank and the others hiding in the Secret Annex during World War II.
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D.
Jurriaan de Jonge
Jurriaan de Jonge is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Dutch surname "de Jonge."
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E.
Hendrik de Vries
Hendrik de Vries was a mathematician who supervised and mentored the influential algebraist Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Dutch culture ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | van der Meer ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Hendrik ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic | bearer of the Dutch surname "van der Meer" ⓘ |
| hasSurname | van der Meer ⓘ |
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: Hendrik van der Meer Description of subject: Hendrik van der Meer is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Dutch surname "van der Meer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.