Sarah Osborne
E19674
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Osborne canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7564 — 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 Osborne Context triple: [Salem witch trials, firstAccused, Sarah Osborne]
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A.
Mary Easty
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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B.
Maria Cotton Mather
Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
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C.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
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.
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E.
Elisabeth Pepys
Elisabeth Pepys was the French-born wife of English diarist Samuel Pepys, known primarily through his detailed diary accounts of their often turbulent marriage and domestic life in 17th-century London.
- 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 Osborne Target entity description: Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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A.
Mary Easty
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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B.
Maria Cotton Mather
Maria Cotton Mather was the mother of the influential New England Puritan minister and writer Cotton Mather.
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C.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
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.
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E.
Elisabeth Pepys
Elisabeth Pepys was the French-born wife of English diarist Samuel Pepys, known primarily through his detailed diary accounts of their often turbulent marriage and domestic life in 17th-century London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
accused witch
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| accusedIn |
1692 Salem witch trials
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem witch trials
|
| charge | witchcraft ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Putnam family of Salem Village
ⓘ
linked to:
Putnam family faction in Salem Village
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfAccusation | 1692 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1692 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Osborne ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtDeath | awaiting trial for witchcraft ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | died in prison ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableEvent | accused by young girls in Salem Village of practicing witchcraft ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first women accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of colonial Massachusetts
ⓘ
history of witchcraft accusations in North America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| placeOfDetention | Boston jail ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
|
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence | New England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexander Osborne
ⓘ
Robert Prince ⓘ |
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 Osborne Description of subject: Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.