Susannah Martin
E19154
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susannah Martin canonical | 4 |
| Susannah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7558 — 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: Susannah Martin Context triple: [Salem witch trials, notableVictim, Susannah Martin]
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A.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- 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: Susannah Martin Target entity description: Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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A.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alleged witch
ⓘ
person ⓘ victim of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Amesbury, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| burialPlace | unmarked grave near execution site at Salem, Massachusetts (probable) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution for alleged witchcraft ⓘ |
| charges | witchcraft ⓘ |
| convictedBy | Court of Oyer and Terminer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 1692-05-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1621 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1692-07-19 ⓘ |
| deathPenaltyImposedBy | authorities of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonist in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Martin ⓘ |
| givenName |
Susannah Martin
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Susannah
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| hasCause | mass hysteria during Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| memorial |
Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Witch Trials Memorial, Proctor’s Ledge, Salem, Massachusetts
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| notableFor | being one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest |
Amesbury, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
| placeOfResidence |
Amesbury, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| posthumousRecognition | recognized as innocent victim of witchcraft hysteria ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | George Martin ⓘ |
| trialHeldIn |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
| victimOf |
judicial error
ⓘ
religious persecution ⓘ |
| yearOfBirth | 1621 ⓘ |
| yearOfDeath | 1692 ⓘ |
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: Susannah Martin Description of subject: Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Susannah