Mary Easty
E19336
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Easty canonical | 7 |
| Mary Eastey | 4 |
| Mary Esty | 3 |
| Mary Eastie | 1 |
| Mary Towne | 1 |
| Rebecca Towne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7560 — 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.
Target entity: Mary Easty Context triple: [Salem witch trials, notableVictim, Mary Easty]
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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C.
Virginia Joan Bennett
Virginia Joan Bennett, better known as Joan Bennett Kennedy, is an American socialite, musician, and former model who was the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mary Easty Target entity description: Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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C.
Virginia Joan Bennett
Virginia Joan Bennett, better known as Joan Bennett Kennedy, is an American socialite, musician, and former model who was the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials victim
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| accusedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Mary Eastey
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Easty
Mary Eastie ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Easty
Mary Esty ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Easty
|
| associatedWith |
Massachusetts Bay Colony legal history
ⓘ
Puritan community of Salem Village ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1634-08-24 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Mary Towne
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Easty
|
| birthPlace |
England
ⓘ
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | judicial execution ⓘ |
| convictedBy | Court of Oyer and Terminer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 1692-04-21 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1692-09-22 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ
linked to:
Salem, Massachusetts
|
| ethnicGroup | English colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Easty ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | housewife ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
1692 Salem witch panic
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem witch trials
|
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dignified plea for justice during the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
maintaining innocence of witchcraft ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of injustice of witchcraft persecutions ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| memorial |
Rebecca Nurse Homestead memorial, Danvers, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Petition to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem witch trials
|
| numberOfChildren | 11 ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | unmarked grave near Gallows Hill, Salem ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | literature about the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| reArrestDate | 1692-05-20 ⓘ |
| releasedFromCustody | 1692-05-18 ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| sibling |
Rebecca Nurse
ⓘ
Sarah Cloyce ⓘ |
| spouse | Isaac Easty ⓘ |
| victimOf |
false accusation of witchcraft
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religious hysteria in 17th-century New England ⓘ |
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Subject: Mary Easty Description of subject: Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
Referenced by (17)
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