Sebastiaan
E942017
Sebastiaan is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the name Sébastien.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bastiaan | 2 |
| Sebastiaan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11712043 — 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: Sebastiaan Context triple: [Sébastien, hasVariant, Sebastiaan]
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A.
Wouter
Wouter is a Dutch historian of religion and leading scholar of Western esotericism.
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B.
Marius de Jonge
Marius de Jonge is a Dutch biblical scholar known for his influential work on New Testament studies and early Christianity.
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C.
Adriaan
Adriaan is a masculine given name of Dutch origin commonly used in the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking regions.
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D.
Guus
Guus is a Dutch given name most famously associated with football manager Guus Hiddink.
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E.
Maarten
Maarten is a Dutch masculine given name, historically borne by notable figures such as the 17th-century admiral Maarten Tromp.
- 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: Sebastiaan Target entity description: Sebastiaan is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the name Sébastien.
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A.
Wouter
Wouter is a Dutch historian of religion and leading scholar of Western esotericism.
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B.
Marius de Jonge
Marius de Jonge is a Dutch biblical scholar known for his influential work on New Testament studies and early Christianity.
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C.
Adriaan
Adriaan is a masculine given name of Dutch origin commonly used in the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking regions.
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D.
Guus
Guus is a Dutch given name most famously associated with football manager Guus Hiddink.
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E.
Maarten
Maarten is a Dutch masculine given name, historically borne by notable figures such as the 17th-century admiral Maarten Tromp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| correspondsTo | Sébastien ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin |
Ancient Greek name Sebastianos
ⓘ
Sebastianus ⓘ
linked to:
Sebastian
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory | proper noun ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Sebastian
ⓘ
Sébastien ⓘ |
| meaningRelatedTo |
revered
ⓘ
venerable ⓘ |
| nameDayAssociatedWith | Saint Sebastian ⓘ |
| orthographicFeature |
containsDoubleA
ⓘ
containsDoubleAAndDoubleASequence ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Bastiaan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sebastiaan
Seb ⓘ Sven ⓘ |
| shortForm |
Bas
ⓘ
Basie ⓘ Sebas ⓘ
linked to:
Sebastiano
|
| usedBy | Dutch speakers ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Flanders
ⓘ
Netherlands ⓘ |
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: Sebastiaan Description of subject: Sebastiaan is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the name Sébastien.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sebastiaan
linked to: Sebastiaan