Samuel Bradstreet
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Samuel Bradstreet was a colonial-era New England resident whose burial in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, links him to the early history of the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Bradstreet canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5117882 — 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 Bradstreet Context triple: [Charter Street Cemetery, containsGraveOf, Samuel Bradstreet]
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A.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather is the husband of Katherine Hoult.
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B.
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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C.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
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D.
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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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- 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 Bradstreet Target entity description: Samuel Bradstreet was a colonial-era New England resident whose burial in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, links him to the early history of the region.
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A.
Richard Mather
Richard Mather is the husband of Katherine Hoult.
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B.
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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C.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
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D.
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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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial-era New England resident
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historic cemetery ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
early history of New England
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early history of Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| buriedIn |
Charter Street Cemetery
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Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country | Colonial America ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Samuel Bradstreet Description of subject: Samuel Bradstreet was a colonial-era New England resident whose burial in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, links him to the early history of the region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Governor Simon Bradstreet