Ambrosius
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Ambrosius was a German-Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker, known as the elder brother of the famous artist Hans Holbein the Younger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ambrosius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10885583 — 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: Ambrosius Context triple: [Ambrosius Holbein, givenName, Ambrosius]
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A.
Ambrosius Flume
Ambrosius Flume is a wizarding confectioner in the Harry Potter universe, best known as the proprietor of the popular sweet shop Honeydukes in Hogsmeade.
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B.
Aurelius Ambrosius
Aurelius Ambrosius is a legendary British king in Arthurian tradition, often depicted as an early ruler and predecessor to Uther Pendragon and King Arthur.
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C.
Aurelius Ambrosius
Aurelius Ambrosius, better known as Ambrose of Milan, was a 4th-century bishop, influential Church Father, and one of the most important theologians and leaders of the early Western Christian Church.
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D.
Prasutagus
Prasutagus was a 1st-century king of the Iceni tribe in Roman Britain, best known as the husband of Boudica and for his death triggering her famous revolt against Roman rule.
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E.
Cunobelinus
Cunobelinus was a powerful early 1st-century CE king of the Catuvellauni tribe in southeastern Britain, often regarded as one of the most influential native rulers before the Roman conquest.
- 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: Ambrosius Target entity description: Ambrosius was a German-Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker, known as the elder brother of the famous artist Hans Holbein the Younger.
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A.
Ambrosius Flume
Ambrosius Flume is a wizarding confectioner in the Harry Potter universe, best known as the proprietor of the popular sweet shop Honeydukes in Hogsmeade.
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B.
Aurelius Ambrosius
Aurelius Ambrosius is a legendary British king in Arthurian tradition, often depicted as an early ruler and predecessor to Uther Pendragon and King Arthur.
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C.
Aurelius Ambrosius
Aurelius Ambrosius, better known as Ambrose of Milan, was a 4th-century bishop, influential Church Father, and one of the most important theologians and leaders of the early Western Christian Church.
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D.
Prasutagus
Prasutagus was a 1st-century king of the Iceni tribe in Roman Britain, best known as the husband of Boudica and for his death triggering her famous revolt against Roman rule.
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E.
Cunobelinus
Cunobelinus was a powerful early 1st-century CE king of the Catuvellauni tribe in southeastern Britain, often regarded as one of the most influential native rulers before the Roman conquest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German person
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Renaissance painter ⓘ Swiss person ⓘ person ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 16th century ⓘ |
| artForm |
drawing
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woodcut ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| employer | Basel printers ⓘ |
| familyName | Holbein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Hans Holbein the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | book illustration for humanist publications ⓘ |
| genre |
book illustration
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portrait ⓘ |
| givenName | Ambrosius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ambrosius Holbein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the elder brother of Hans Holbein the Younger ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Portrait drawings of Basel humanists
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Title page woodcut for the first edition of Thomas More’s Utopia ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ |
| relative |
Hans Holbein the Elder
NERFINISHED
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Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Northern Renaissance art ⓘ |
| workLocation | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ambrosius Description of subject: Ambrosius was a German-Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker, known as the elder brother of the famous artist Hans Holbein the Younger.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Johann Ambrosius Bach