De Winter
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De Winter is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Admiral Jan Willem de Winter, a prominent naval officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10149808 — 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 Winter Context triple: [Jan Willem de Winter, familyName, De Winter]
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A.
Un coeur en hiver
Un coeur en hiver is a 1992 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, acclaimed for its subtle exploration of love, emotional restraint, and betrayal within the world of classical music.
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B.
Le Crève-Cœur
Le Crève-Cœur is a celebrated poetry collection by French writer Louis Aragon, known for its lyrical exploration of love, loss, and resistance during World War II.
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C.
Le Printemps
Le Printemps is a landscape painting by French artist Charles-François Daubigny that exemplifies his pioneering role in the Barbizon school and pre-Impressionist movement.
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D.
Le Mistral
Le Mistral was the original name of the iconic English-language Parisian bookshop later known as Shakespeare and Company.
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E.
Les Dormeurs
Les Dormeurs is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she photographed and documented people sleeping in her bed over several days, exploring themes of intimacy, voyeurism, and the boundaries between public and private life.
- 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 Winter Target entity description: De Winter is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Admiral Jan Willem de Winter, a prominent naval officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Un coeur en hiver
Un coeur en hiver is a 1992 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, acclaimed for its subtle exploration of love, emotional restraint, and betrayal within the world of classical music.
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B.
Le Crève-Cœur
Le Crève-Cœur is a celebrated poetry collection by French writer Louis Aragon, known for its lyrical exploration of love, loss, and resistance during World War II.
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C.
Le Printemps
Le Printemps is a landscape painting by French artist Charles-François Daubigny that exemplifies his pioneering role in the Barbizon school and pre-Impressionist movement.
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D.
Le Mistral
Le Mistral was the original name of the iconic English-language Parisian bookshop later known as Shakespeare and Company.
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E.
Les Dormeurs
Les Dormeurs is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she photographed and documented people sleeping in her bed over several days, exploring themes of intimacy, voyeurism, and the boundaries between public and private life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-language surname
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human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Dutch-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames of Dutch origin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| etymology | Dutch toponymic or descriptive surname ⓘ |
| familyName | De Winter ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan Willem ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jan Willem de Winter ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
DeWinter
ⓘ
de Winter ⓘ deWinter ⓘ
linked to:
DeWinter
|
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| meaning | "the winter" in Dutch ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Dutch Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Dutch navy of the Republic
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| notableFor |
service in the early 19th century
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service in the late 18th century ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Admiral ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Belgium
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Netherlands ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Suriname ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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 Winter Description of subject: De Winter is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Admiral Jan Willem de Winter, a prominent naval officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.