Sarah Allerton
E156821
Sarah Allerton was an early 17th-century Englishwoman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest and a member of the broader Pilgrim community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Allerton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T644698 — 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: Sarah Allerton Context triple: [Degory Priest, spouse, Sarah Allerton]
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A.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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B.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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C.
Sarah Whetstone
Sarah Whetstone was the wife of English privateer and colonial governor Woodes Rogers, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent seafaring and political life.
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D.
Sarah Thorne
Sarah Thorne was the wife of Leonard Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
- 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: Sarah Allerton Target entity description: Sarah Allerton was an early 17th-century Englishwoman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest and a member of the broader Pilgrim community.
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A.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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B.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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C.
Sarah Whetstone
Sarah Whetstone was the wife of English privateer and colonial governor Woodes Rogers, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent seafaring and political life.
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D.
Sarah Thorne
Sarah Thorne was the wife of Leonard Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century person
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English person ⓘ Pilgrim ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Allerton ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pilgrim community ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the Pilgrim community
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being the wife of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest ⓘ |
| spouse |
Degory Priest
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Sarah Allerton self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Sarah Allerton Description of subject: Sarah Allerton was an early 17th-century Englishwoman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest and a member of the broader Pilgrim community.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Degory Priest