Stephen Sewall
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Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Sewall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3887578 — 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: Stephen Sewall Context triple: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, Stephen Sewall]
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A.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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B.
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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C.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
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D.
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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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: Stephen Sewall Target entity description: Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
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A.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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B.
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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C.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
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D.
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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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 (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American colonial figure
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Chief Justice ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
British America
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Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sewall ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jurisprudence
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law ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Massachusetts judiciary
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linked to:
Judiciary of Massachusetts
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| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | Massachusetts legal system ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
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Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston
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Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Stephen Sewall Description of subject: Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.