Samuel Willard
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Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Willard canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2859722 — 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: Samuel Willard Context triple: [Deerfield Academy, founder, Samuel Willard]
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A.
Samuel Phillips Jr.
Samuel Phillips Jr. was an American educator and politician best known for founding Phillips Academy Andover, one of the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.
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B.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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C.
Nathaniel Mather
Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
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D.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Samuel Willard Target entity description: Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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A.
Samuel Phillips Jr.
Samuel Phillips Jr. was an American educator and politician best known for founding Phillips Academy Andover, one of the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.
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B.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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C.
Nathaniel Mather
Nathaniel Mather was a 17th-century English-born Puritan minister and theologian, known for his pastoral work in England and Ireland and as a member of the prominent Mather clerical family.
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D.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.
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E.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clergyman
ⓘ
educator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | colonial New England ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
|
| birthDate | 1640-01-31 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Concord, Massachusetts
|
| centuryOfActivity |
17th century
ⓘ
early 18th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Colonial America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1707-09-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| denomination | Congregational church ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Third Church in Boston ⓘ |
| endTime | acting president of Harvard College, 1707 ⓘ |
| familyName | Willard ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
sermons
ⓘ
theological lectures ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1659 ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Reverend ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in colonial New England religious life
ⓘ
opposition to aspects of the Salem witch trials ⓘ role in early American higher education ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Massachusetts clergy ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Compleat Body of Divinity ⓘ |
| occupation |
Puritan minister
ⓘ
educator ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| parent |
Mary Sharpe
ⓘ
Simon Willard ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
King’s Chapel Burying Ground, Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
King's Chapel Burying Ground
|
| positionHeld |
acting president of Harvard College
ⓘ
pastor of the Third Church in Boston ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Abigail Sherman
ⓘ
Eunice Tyng ⓘ |
| startTime | acting president of Harvard College, 1701 ⓘ |
| theologicalOrientation | Calvinist ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Samuel Willard Description of subject: Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.