Eleazar Mather
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Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleazar Mather canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T194357 — 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: Eleazar Mather Context triple: [Increase Mather, sibling, Eleazar 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.
Nathaniel Mather
Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
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C.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
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D.
Samuel Mather
Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Eleazar Mather Target entity description: Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase 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.
Nathaniel Mather
Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
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C.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
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D.
Samuel Mather
Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Puritan minister
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mather
ⓘ
linked to:
Increase Mather
|
| givenName | Eleazar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England
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being the older brother of Increase Mather ⓘ |
| occupation | minister ⓘ |
| positionHeld | pastor in New England ⓘ |
| relative | Increase Mather ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence | New England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Increase Mather ⓘ |
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: Eleazar Mather Description of subject: Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.