Cloyce
E172496
Cloyce is a surname most notably associated with Sarah Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cloyce canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1504806 — 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: Cloyce Context triple: [Sarah Cloyce, familyName, Cloyce]
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A.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
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B.
Carmichael
Carmichael is a suburban community in California known as a residential area within the greater Sacramento metropolitan region.
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C.
Clyde
Clyde is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with the River Clyde in Scotland and used widely in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Clyde
Clyde is the thistle-inspired cartoon character that served as the official mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
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E.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
- 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: Cloyce Target entity description: Cloyce is a surname most notably associated with Sarah Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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A.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
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B.
Carmichael
Carmichael is a suburban community in California known as a residential area within the greater Sacramento metropolitan region.
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C.
Clyde
Clyde is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with the River Clyde in Scotland and used widely in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Clyde
Clyde is the thistle-inspired cartoon character that served as the official mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
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E.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ mass hysteria event ⓘ surname ⓘ witch trial ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| endTime | 1693 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonist in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cloyce self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasAccusedPerson | Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
| hasNotableHistoricalContext | 17th-century Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| notableFor | being accused during the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
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surface form:
Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| startTime | 1692 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
English
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surface form:
English language
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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: Cloyce Description of subject: Cloyce is a surname most notably associated with Sarah Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sarah Cloyce