Sarah Cloyce
E33874
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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Cloyce canonical | 8 |
| Sarah Cloyse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T49086 — 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 Cloyce Context triple: [Rebecca Nurse, relative, Sarah Cloyce]
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A.
Susannah Martin
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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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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D.
Kathleen
Kathleen is a feminine given name of Irish origin, derived from the name Catherine and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
- 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 Cloyce Target entity description: 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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A.
Susannah Martin
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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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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D.
Kathleen
Kathleen is a feminine given name of Irish origin, derived from the name Catherine and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| accusedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| advocatedFor | posthumous exoneration of Salem witch trial victims ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sarah Cloyce
ⓘ
surface form:
Sarah Cloyse
Sarah Towne Cloyce ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Rebecca Nurse homestead
Salem Village meetinghouse ⓘ
surface form:
Salem Village church
|
| burialPlace |
Framingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Framingham, Massachusetts
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| causeOfNotability | her resistance to and later challenge of the Salem witch trial verdicts ⓘ |
| citizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1637 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1703 ⓘ |
| detainedIn | Salem jail ⓘ |
| ethnicity | English colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Cloyce ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
history of colonial New England
ⓘ
history of religious persecution in America ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| influenced | later criticism of spectral evidence in legal proceedings ⓘ |
| legalStatusDuringTrials | accused witch ⓘ |
| memberOf | Towne family ⓘ |
| migration | emigrated from England to New England as a child ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being accused during the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Great Yarmouth
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
|
| placeOfDeath |
Framingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Framingham, Province of Massachusetts Bay
|
| placeOfResidence |
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| portrayedIn |
dramatizations of the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
literature about the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Mary Easty
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Eastey
Rebecca Nurse ⓘ |
| spouse | Peter Cloyce ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Cloyce Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sarah Cloyse
subject surface form:
Salem witch trials
subject surface form:
Salem witch trials