Maria de la Quellerie
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Maria de la Quellerie was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as the wife of colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maria de la Quellerie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T665316 — 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: Maria de la Quellerie Context triple: [Jan van Riebeeck, spouse, Maria de la Quellerie]
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A.
Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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B.
Hortense Fiquet
Hortense Fiquet was a French model best known as the wife and frequent portrait subject of the painter Paul Cézanne.
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C.
Marie de Esy
Marie de Esy was the birth name of Marie Mosquini, an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies.
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D.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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E.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- 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: Maria de la Quellerie Target entity description: Maria de la Quellerie was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as the wife of colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town.
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A.
Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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B.
Hortense Fiquet
Hortense Fiquet was a French model best known as the wife and frequent portrait subject of the painter Paul Cézanne.
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C.
Marie de Esy
Marie de Esy was the birth name of Marie Mosquini, an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies.
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D.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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E.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch person
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
founding of Cape Town ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | Africa ⓘ |
| continentOfOrigin | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| historicalRegionAssociatedWith |
Cape Colony
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Dutch ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Maria de la Quellerie self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Jan van Riebeeck
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role in early Dutch Cape Colony society ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Cape of Good Hope
ⓘ
Cape Colony ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch Cape Colony
|
| religion | Calvinism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cape Town
ⓘ
Cape of Good Hope ⓘ Cape Colony ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch Cape Colony
|
| roleInSociety |
colonial settler
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colonial wife ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Jan van Riebeeck ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | founder of Cape Town ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | colonial administrator ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Age of Sail
ⓘ
European colonial expansion ⓘ |
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: Maria de la Quellerie Description of subject: Maria de la Quellerie was a 17th-century Dutch woman best known as the wife of colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.