Old Chattox
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Old Chattox was one of the most infamous accused witches in early 17th-century England, central to the notorious Pendle witch trials of 1612.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Chattox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7820387 — 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: Old Chattox Context triple: [Pendle witch trials, notableDefendant, Old Chattox]
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A.
Chapelhall
Chapelhall is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically associated with coal mining and situated near the town of Airdrie.
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B.
Craighouse
Craighouse is the main village and administrative center on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, known for its harbor and whisky distillery.
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C.
Beattock
Beattock is a small village in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, in the south of Scotland, historically known as a coaching stop on the route between England and the Scottish Highlands.
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D.
Coryton
Coryton is a suburban area and railway terminus in Cardiff, Wales, served by local commuter trains.
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E.
Crockenhill
Crockenhill is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, situated near the town of Swanley.
- 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: Old Chattox Target entity description: Old Chattox was one of the most infamous accused witches in early 17th-century England, central to the notorious Pendle witch trials of 1612.
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A.
Chapelhall
Chapelhall is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically associated with coal mining and situated near the town of Airdrie.
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B.
Craighouse
Craighouse is the main village and administrative center on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, known for its harbor and whisky distillery.
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C.
Beattock
Beattock is a small village in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, in the south of Scotland, historically known as a coaching stop on the route between England and the Scottish Highlands.
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D.
Coryton
Coryton is a suburban area and railway terminus in Cardiff, Wales, served by local commuter trains.
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E.
Crockenhill
Crockenhill is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, situated near the town of Swanley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Old Chattox Description of subject: Old Chattox was one of the most infamous accused witches in early 17th-century England, central to the notorious Pendle witch trials of 1612.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.