Parson's Cause
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Parson's Cause was a mid-18th-century legal and political dispute in colonial Virginia that challenged royal authority over clergy pay and helped fuel emerging revolutionary sentiment.
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| Parson's Cause canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19247542 — 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: Parson's Cause Context triple: [Church of England in the Colony of Virginia, significantEvent, Parson's Cause]
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Trial of the Seventeen
Trial of the Seventeen was a 1937 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which several prominent Old Bolsheviks and officials were prosecuted on fabricated charges during Stalin’s Great Purge.
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B.
Trial of the Seventeen
Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
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Tichborne trial
The Tichborne trial was a famous 19th-century English legal case in which a man falsely claimed to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, becoming one of the era’s most sensational fraud and identity trials.
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D.
Mar Peerage Case
The Mar Peerage Case was a landmark 19th-century legal dispute in the House of Lords over the rightful succession to the ancient Scottish earldom of Mar, with significant implications for peerage law and Scottish titles.
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E.
Trial of the Sixteen
The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
- 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: Parson's Cause Target entity description: Parson's Cause was a mid-18th-century legal and political dispute in colonial Virginia that challenged royal authority over clergy pay and helped fuel emerging revolutionary sentiment.
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A.
Trial of the Seventeen
Trial of the Seventeen was a 1937 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which several prominent Old Bolsheviks and officials were prosecuted on fabricated charges during Stalin’s Great Purge.
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B.
Trial of the Seventeen
Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
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C.
Tichborne trial
The Tichborne trial was a famous 19th-century English legal case in which a man falsely claimed to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, becoming one of the era’s most sensational fraud and identity trials.
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D.
Mar Peerage Case
The Mar Peerage Case was a landmark 19th-century legal dispute in the House of Lords over the rightful succession to the ancient Scottish earldom of Mar, with significant implications for peerage law and Scottish titles.
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E.
Trial of the Sixteen
The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.