Sarah Good
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Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Good canonical | 15 |
| accused person Sarah Good | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7557 — 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: Sarah Good Context triple: [Salem witch trials, notableVictim, Sarah Good]
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A.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Martha Corey
Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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D.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
- 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: Sarah Good Target entity description: Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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A.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Martha Corey
Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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D.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials victim
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution for alleged witchcraft ⓘ |
| child | Dorothy Good ⓘ |
| convictedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1692-07-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Good ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | history of witch hunts in North America ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America ⓘ |
| isAmong | first women accused in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| knownFor | maintaining her innocence at execution ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| motherOf | Dorothy Good ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
being executed for witchcraft in 1692 ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem, Massachusetts
|
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialStatus | poor ⓘ |
| spouse | William Good ⓘ |
| wasAccusedBy |
Abigail Williams
ⓘ
Elizabeth Parris ⓘ |
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: Sarah Good Description of subject: Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sarah Good