Maria Cotton Mather
E16074
Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria Cotton Mather canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T49023 — 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 Cotton Mather Context triple: [Cotton Mather, mother, Maria Cotton Mather]
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A.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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B.
Elizabeth Howe
Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
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C.
Sarah Good
Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Francis Nurse
Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Catharine Beecher
Catharine Beecher was a 19th-century American educator and reformer known for promoting women’s education and domestic science, and for her influential writings on the role of women in society.
- 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 Cotton Mather Target entity description: Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
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A.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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B.
Elizabeth Howe
Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
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C.
Sarah Good
Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Francis Nurse
Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Catharine Beecher
Catharine Beecher was a 19th-century American educator and reformer known for promoting women’s education and domestic science, and for her influential writings on the role of women in society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Puritan minister
ⓘ
human ⓘ mother ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| child | Cotton Mather ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mather
ⓘ
linked to:
Mather family
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| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| mother | Maria Cotton Mather ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Cotton Mather ⓘ |
| religion |
Puritanism
ⓘ
Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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New England ⓘ New England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Cotton Mather Description of subject: Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.