Richard Carrier
E249068
Richard Carrier was a son of Martha Carrier, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Carrier canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2255926 — 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: Richard Carrier Context triple: [Martha Carrier, child, Richard Carrier]
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A.
Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar and bestselling author known for his critical work on the textual history of the Bible and the historical Jesus.
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B.
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian best known for his work in philosophy of religion, particularly his defense of the Kalam cosmological argument and debates on the existence of God.
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C.
Ian Greer
Ian Greer is a British academic and medical researcher who serves as the President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.
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D.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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E.
J. Robert Spencer
J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
- 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: Richard Carrier Target entity description: Richard Carrier was a son of Martha Carrier, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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A.
Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar and bestselling author known for his critical work on the textual history of the Bible and the historical Jesus.
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B.
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian best known for his work in philosophy of religion, particularly his defense of the Kalam cosmological argument and debates on the existence of God.
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C.
Ian Greer
Ian Greer is a British academic and medical researcher who serves as the President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.
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D.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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E.
J. Robert Spencer
J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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person ⓘ witch trial ⓘ |
| child | Richard Carrier ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1692 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1693 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Carrier ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| location |
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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linked to:
Salem, Massachusetts
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| mother | Martha Carrier ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a son of Salem witch trials victim Martha Carrier
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being executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | events surrounding the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem, Massachusetts
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| residence | Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| startTime | 1692 ⓘ |
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: Richard Carrier Description of subject: Richard Carrier was a son of Martha Carrier, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.