John Wildes
E282814
John Wildes is a historical figure known primarily as the husband of Sarah Wildes, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Wildes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1581911 — 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: John Wildes Context triple: [Sarah Wildes, spouse, John Wildes]
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A.
George Deever
George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
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B.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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C.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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D.
Charles Kenyon
Charles Kenyon was an American screenwriter active in early Hollywood, known for adapting literary works and contributing to numerous films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
- 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: John Wildes Target entity description: John Wildes is a historical figure known primarily as the husband of Sarah Wildes, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
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A.
George Deever
George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
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B.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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C.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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D.
Charles Kenyon
Charles Kenyon was an American screenwriter active in early Hollywood, known for adapting literary works and contributing to numerous films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical event
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person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country | Colonial America ⓘ |
| hasRoleInEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| location | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| name |
John Wildes
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Sarah Wildes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
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being the husband of Salem witch trials accused Sarah Wildes ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Wildes
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Sarah Wildes ⓘ |
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: John Wildes Description of subject: John Wildes is a historical figure known primarily as the husband of Sarah Wildes, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.