Jane Bulcock
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Jane Bulcock was one of the accused women tried for witchcraft during the infamous 1612 Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Bulcock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7820393 — 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: Jane Bulcock Context triple: [Pendle witch trials, notableDefendant, Jane Bulcock]
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A.
Emily Barlow
Emily Barlow is one of the children of English singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow.
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B.
Jennifer Bourke
Jennifer Bourke is known as the spouse of actor Robert Shaw.
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C.
Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt was a 19th-century American Quaker reformer and early women's rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and shape the emerging women's suffrage movement.
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D.
Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling was an English actress best known for playing the companion Victoria Waterfield in the classic Doctor Who television series.
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E.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
- 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: Jane Bulcock Target entity description: Jane Bulcock was one of the accused women tried for witchcraft during the infamous 1612 Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, England.
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A.
Emily Barlow
Emily Barlow is one of the children of English singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow.
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B.
Jennifer Bourke
Jennifer Bourke is known as the spouse of actor Robert Shaw.
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C.
Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt was a 19th-century American Quaker reformer and early women's rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and shape the emerging women's suffrage movement.
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D.
Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling was an English actress best known for playing the companion Victoria Waterfield in the classic Doctor Who television series.
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E.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alleged witch
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| accusedOf |
witchcraft
ⓘ
witchcraft ⓘ |
| charge | witchcraft ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
witchcraft
ⓘ
witchcraft ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1612
ⓘ
1612 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1612 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bulcock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jane ⓘ |
| hasRelative | John Bulcock ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent |
Lancaster, Lancashire
ⓘ
linked to:
Lancaster, England
|
| mannerOfDeath |
execution by hanging
ⓘ
execution by hanging ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the accused in the Pendle witch trials ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Pendle witch trials
ⓘ
Pendle witch trials ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pendle witches
ⓘ
linked to:
Pendle witch trials
|
| placeOfDeath |
Lancaster, England
ⓘ
Lancaster, Lancashire ⓘ
linked to:
Lancaster, England
Lancaster, Lancashire ⓘ
linked to:
Lancaster, England
|
| placeOfResidence |
Lancashire, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Lancashire
Pendle, Lancashire ⓘ
linked to:
Borough of Pendle
|
| placeOfTrial | Lancaster Assizes ⓘ |
| punishedBy |
execution
ⓘ
execution ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
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: Jane Bulcock Description of subject: Jane Bulcock was one of the accused women tried for witchcraft during the infamous 1612 Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.