Anna van Egmond the Elder
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Anna van Egmond the Elder was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman from a prominent aristocratic family, known as the mother of Anna van Egmond, the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna van Egmond the Elder canonical | 3 |
| Anna van Egmont the Elder | 2 |
| Anna van Egmond the Younger | 1 |
| Anna van Egmont the Younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11282548 — 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: Anna van Egmond the Elder Context triple: [House of Egmond, member, Anna van Egmond the Elder]
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A.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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B.
Antje van Uylenburgh
Antje van Uylenburgh was a member of the prominent Uylenburgh family of Friesland in the Dutch Republic, related to Rembrandt’s wife Saskia and connected to the artist’s social circle.
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C.
Anna van Erckel
Anna van Erckel was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Ferdinand Bol and a member of a prominent Amsterdam family.
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D.
Margareta van Eyck
Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
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E.
Maria van Oosterwijck
Maria van Oosterwijck was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for her meticulously detailed and symbolically rich still-life flower paintings.
- 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: Anna van Egmond the Elder Target entity description: Anna van Egmond the Elder was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman from a prominent aristocratic family, known as the mother of Anna van Egmond, the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
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A.
Maria van Aelst
Maria van Aelst was the wife of Dutch colonial governor-general Anthony van Diemen, associated with the Dutch East India Company’s activities in the 17th century.
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B.
Antje van Uylenburgh
Antje van Uylenburgh was a member of the prominent Uylenburgh family of Friesland in the Dutch Republic, related to Rembrandt’s wife Saskia and connected to the artist’s social circle.
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C.
Anna van Erckel
Anna van Erckel was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Ferdinand Bol and a member of a prominent Amsterdam family.
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D.
Margareta van Eyck
Margareta van Eyck was the wife of Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, known primarily through her depiction in his famous 1439 portrait.
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E.
Maria van Oosterwijck
Maria van Oosterwijck was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for her meticulously detailed and symbolically rich still-life flower paintings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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Dutch noble ⓘ human ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| child | Anna van Egmond ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ |
| describedAs | 16th-century Dutch noblewoman from a prominent aristocratic family ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| familyName | van Egmond ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Anna ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Dutch ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Egmond ⓘ |
| motherOf | Anna van Egmond ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | noblewoman ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Egmond family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Anna van Egmond, first wife of William the Silent ⓘ |
| partOf | Dutch aristocracy ⓘ |
| relative |
Anna van Egmond
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William the Silent ⓘ
linked to:
William I, Prince of Orange
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| residence | Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
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: Anna van Egmond the Elder Description of subject: Anna van Egmond the Elder was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman from a prominent aristocratic family, known as the mother of Anna van Egmond, the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Anna van Egmond the Elder
linked to: Anna van Egmond the Elder
linked to: Anna van Egmond the Elder
linked to: Anna van Egmond the Elder