Jonathan Corwin
E21340
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Corwin canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T48971 — 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: Jonathan Corwin Context triple: [Court of Oyer and Terminer, judge, Jonathan Corwin]
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A.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
- 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: Jonathan Corwin Target entity description: Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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A.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Jonathan Corwin Description of subject: Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House), Salem, Massachusetts
subject linked to:
The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House), Salem, Massachusetts