Alice Nutter
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Alice Nutter was a wealthy gentlewoman from Lancashire who became one of the most famous accused witches in the 1612 Pendle witch trials, ultimately being tried and executed for witchcraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alice Nutter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7820388 — 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: Alice Nutter Context triple: [Pendle witch trials, notableDefendant, Alice Nutter]
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A.
Alice Dainard
Alice Dainard is a central teenage character in the science fiction film "Super 8," known for her emotional depth and involvement in the mysterious events surrounding a catastrophic train crash.
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B.
Alice Hanthorn
Alice Hanthorn was the wife of American businessman and government official Lewis L. Strauss, associated with his early life and career before his prominence in nuclear policy.
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C.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington was an American character actress best known for her warm, maternal roles in classic Hollywood films and early television, including the sitcom "December Bride."
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D.
Rosemary Squire
Rosemary Squire is a prominent British theatre entrepreneur and producer, best known as the co-founder and former joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group, one of the world’s largest live theatre companies.
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E.
Rose Mignon
Rose Mignon is a fictional character from the manga and anime series "Nana," which follows the intertwined lives of two young women who share the same name.
- 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: Alice Nutter Target entity description: Alice Nutter was a wealthy gentlewoman from Lancashire who became one of the most famous accused witches in the 1612 Pendle witch trials, ultimately being tried and executed for witchcraft.
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A.
Alice Dainard
Alice Dainard is a central teenage character in the science fiction film "Super 8," known for her emotional depth and involvement in the mysterious events surrounding a catastrophic train crash.
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B.
Alice Hanthorn
Alice Hanthorn was the wife of American businessman and government official Lewis L. Strauss, associated with his early life and career before his prominence in nuclear policy.
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C.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington was an American character actress best known for her warm, maternal roles in classic Hollywood films and early television, including the sitcom "December Bride."
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D.
Rosemary Squire
Rosemary Squire is a prominent British theatre entrepreneur and producer, best known as the co-founder and former joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group, one of the world’s largest live theatre companies.
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E.
Rose Mignon
Rose Mignon is a fictional character from the manga and anime series "Nana," which follows the intertwined lives of two young women who share the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alleged witch
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| charge |
maleficium
ⓘ
witchcraft ⓘ |
| convictedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1612 ⓘ |
| familyName | Nutter ⓘ |
| foundInNarrativeWork | accounts of the Pendle witch trials ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Alice ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | history of English witch trials ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment | English ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtTrial | defendant ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| notableFor | being accused of witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation | gentlewoman ⓘ |
| participantIn | Pendle witch trials ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pendle witches
ⓘ
linked to:
Pendle witch trials
|
| placeOfDeath | Lancaster ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Lancashire ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Pendle Forest
ⓘ
linked to:
Pendle
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Lancashire ⓘ |
| socialStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 17th century ⓘ |
| trialHeldAt | Lancaster Assizes ⓘ |
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: Alice Nutter Description of subject: Alice Nutter was a wealthy gentlewoman from Lancashire who became one of the most famous accused witches in the 1612 Pendle witch trials, ultimately being tried and executed for witchcraft.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.