Peter Cloyce
E180961
Peter Cloyce was a 17th-century Massachusetts resident known primarily as the husband of accused Salem witch trial victim Sarah Cloyce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Cloyce canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1504816 — 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: Peter Cloyce Context triple: [Sarah Cloyce, spouse, Peter Cloyce]
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A.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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B.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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C.
Christopher Fettes
Christopher Fettes is a theatre educator and director best known as the co-founder of Drama Centre London, an influential British drama school.
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D.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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E.
Thomas Davison
Thomas Davison was a 19th-century British printer and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Lord Byron’s poem "Don Juan."
- 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: Peter Cloyce Target entity description: Peter Cloyce was a 17th-century Massachusetts resident known primarily as the husband of accused Salem witch trial victim Sarah Cloyce.
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A.
Colin Prockter
Colin Prockter is a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the crime comedy film "The Gentlemen."
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B.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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C.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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D.
Christopher Fettes
Christopher Fettes is a theatre educator and director best known as the co-founder of Drama Centre London, an influential British drama school.
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E.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century Massachusetts resident
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Salem witch trials victim ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the husband of accused Salem witch trials victim Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| spouse |
Peter Cloyce
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Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
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: Peter Cloyce Description of subject: Peter Cloyce was a 17th-century Massachusetts resident known primarily as the husband of accused Salem witch trial victim Sarah Cloyce.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.