Putnam
E45179
Putnam is a prominent New England family name historically associated with several key figures in the Salem witch trials and early American colonial life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Putnam canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T355108 — 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: Putnam Context triple: [Ann Putnam Jr., familyName, Putnam]
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A.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Dartmouth
Dartmouth was one of the merchant ships involved in the 1773 Boston Tea Party, a pivotal protest against British taxation in colonial America.
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C.
Carleton
Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons and encompassing parts of the rural and suburban areas around Ottawa.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Harvard–MIT Bridge
The Harvard–MIT Bridge is a notable span over the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, connecting the campuses of Harvard University and 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: Putnam Target entity description: Putnam is a prominent New England family name historically associated with several key figures in the Salem witch trials and early American colonial life.
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A.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Dartmouth
Dartmouth was one of the merchant ships involved in the 1773 Boston Tea Party, a pivotal protest against British taxation in colonial America.
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C.
Carleton
Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons and encompassing parts of the rural and suburban areas around Ottawa.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Harvard–MIT Bridge
The Harvard–MIT Bridge is a notable span over the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, connecting the campuses of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American colonial family
ⓘ
New England family ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) ⓘ
surface form:
Salem Village
|
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicOrigin | English ⓘ |
| familyName |
Putnam
self-linksurface differs
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Putnam self-linksurface differs ⓘ Putnam self-linksurface differs ⓘ Putnam self-linksurface differs ⓘ Putnam self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Ann Putnam Jr.
ⓘ
Ann Putnam Sr. ⓘ George Palmer Putnam ⓘ
surface form:
George Putnam
Harriet Putnam ⓘ Israel Putnam ⓘ Rufus Putnam ⓘ Thomas Putnam ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Ann Putnam Jr.
ⓘ
Ann Putnam Sr. ⓘ Putnam family ⓘ Thomas Putnam ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Putnam family
ⓘ
Putnam family ⓘ Putnam family ⓘ Putnam family ⓘ Putnam family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the Salem witch trials
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role in early American colonial life ⓘ role in settling the Northwest Territory ⓘ |
| occupation |
American general
ⓘ
American military officer ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
accuser in the Salem witch trials
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accuser in the Salem witch trials ⓘ principal accuser in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| socialStatus | prominent colonial family ⓘ |
| surname | Putnam self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Putnam Description of subject: Putnam is a prominent New England family name historically associated with several key figures in the Salem witch trials and early American colonial life.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Putnam
subject surface form:
Ann Putnam Sr.
subject surface form:
Ann Putnam Jr.
subject surface form:
Israel Putnam
subject surface form:
Rufus Putnam
subject surface form:
Hilary Putnam