Anna Magdalena Smit
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Anna Magdalena Smit was the wife of Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna Magdalena Smit canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11436328 — 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 Magdalena Smit Context triple: [Johannes Diderik van der Waals, spouse, Anna Magdalena Smit]
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A.
Anna van Gelder
Anna van Gelder was the wife of famed Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter and a member of the Dutch bourgeoisie in the 17th century.
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B.
Anna Maria Elers
Anna Maria Elers was the first wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and the mother of several of his children, including the writer Maria Edgeworth.
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C.
Coosje van Bruggen
Coosje van Bruggen was a Dutch-American sculptor and art historian best known for her large-scale public art collaborations with her husband Claes Oldenburg.
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D.
Anna van Egmond
Anna van Egmond was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman and heiress who became the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
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E.
Cornélie Scheffer
Cornélie Scheffer was a 19th-century French woman known primarily for her marriage to the influential philosopher and historian Ernest Renan and her connection to the artistic Scheffer family.
- 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 Magdalena Smit Target entity description: Anna Magdalena Smit was the wife of Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
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A.
Anna van Gelder
Anna van Gelder was the wife of famed Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter and a member of the Dutch bourgeoisie in the 17th century.
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B.
Anna Maria Elers
Anna Maria Elers was the first wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and the mother of several of his children, including the writer Maria Edgeworth.
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C.
Coosje van Bruggen
Coosje van Bruggen was a Dutch-American sculptor and art historian best known for her large-scale public art collaborations with her husband Claes Oldenburg.
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D.
Anna van Egmond
Anna van Egmond was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman and heiress who became the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
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E.
Cornélie Scheffer
Cornélie Scheffer was a 19th-century French woman known primarily for her marriage to the influential philosopher and historian Ernest Renan and her connection to the artistic Scheffer family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Netherlands
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Netherlands ⓘ |
| name | Anna Magdalena Smit ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Johannes Diderik van der Waals ⓘ |
| occupation |
homemaker
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physicist ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anna Magdalena Smit
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Magdalena Smit Description of subject: Anna Magdalena Smit was the wife of Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.