de With
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De With is a Dutch surname most notably associated with the 17th-century admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With of the Dutch Republic's navy.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8781076 — 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: de With Context triple: [Witte Corneliszoon de With, familyName, de With]
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A.
De
De is the given name of Zhu De, a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and one of the founders of the People’s Liberation Army.
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B.
deWilde
deWilde is a surname most notably associated with American child actor Brandon deWilde, known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
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C.
Dieze
The Dieze is a river in the southern Netherlands that flows through the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch and ultimately drains into the Dommel and Aa river system.
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D.
Veeweyde
Veeweyde is a neighborhood-level district within the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht, known primarily as a residential area served by the Veeweyde metro station.
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E.
DE-TH
DE-TH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Thuringia.
- 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: de With Target entity description: De With is a Dutch surname most notably associated with the 17th-century admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With of the Dutch Republic's navy.
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A.
De
De is the given name of Zhu De, a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and one of the founders of the People’s Liberation Army.
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B.
deWilde
deWilde is a surname most notably associated with American child actor Brandon deWilde, known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
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C.
Dieze
The Dieze is a river in the southern Netherlands that flows through the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch and ultimately drains into the Dommel and Aa river system.
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D.
Veeweyde
Veeweyde is a neighborhood-level district within the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht, known primarily as a residential area served by the Veeweyde metro station.
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E.
DE-TH
DE-TH is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the German federal state of Thuringia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-language surname
ⓘ
admiral ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United Provinces of the Netherlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Dutch Republic
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1599 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1658 ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| familyName | de With ⓘ |
| givenName | Witte ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Witte Corneliszoon de With ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
De With
ⓘ
DeWith ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Dutch Republic navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Dutch navy of the Republic
|
| militaryRank | vice admiral ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service in the Eighty Years' War
ⓘ
service in the First Anglo-Dutch War ⓘ service in the Northern Wars ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Scheveningen
ⓘ
Battle of the Downs ⓘ Battle of the Gabbard ⓘ Battle of the Kentish Knock ⓘ Battle of the Sound ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Øresund
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| patronymic | Corneliszoon ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hoogendijk, near Den Briel ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Battle of the Sound
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Vågen
|
| usedInLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
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: de With Description of subject: De With is a Dutch surname most notably associated with the 17th-century admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With of the Dutch Republic's navy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
from Dutch "de" meaning "the" and "Witt" related to "white" or a pale person
linked to: de With
subject linked to:
de With