Martha Carrier
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Martha Carrier was a woman accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials and ultimately executed after being condemned as a witch.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha Carrier canonical | 13 |
| Sarah Carrier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T355134 — 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: Martha Carrier Context triple: [Ann Putnam Jr., testifiedAgainst, Martha Carrier]
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A.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first person executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Martha Corey
Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Sarah Good
Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
- 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: Martha Carrier Target entity description: Martha Carrier was a woman accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials and ultimately executed after being condemned as a witch.
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A.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first person executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Martha Corey
Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Sarah Good
Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials victim
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| accusedOf |
afflicting others by witchcraft
ⓘ
covenanting with the Devil ⓘ |
| burialPlace | unmarked grave near Gallows Hill, Salem (probable) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| charge | witchcraft ⓘ |
| child |
Andrew Carrier
ⓘ
Richard Carrier ⓘ Sarah Carrier ⓘ
linked to:
Martha Carrier
Thomas Carrier Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Carrier
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| court |
Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem
ⓘ
linked to:
Court of Oyer and Terminer
|
| dateOfArrest | May 1692 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1643 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | August 1692 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 19 August 1692 ⓘ |
| describedAs | "Queen of Hell" by Cotton Mather ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Cotton Mather ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonist ⓘ |
| fullName | Martha Carrier ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
farmer
ⓘ
housewife ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 17th-century colonial America ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | condemned witch ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| movement | colonial New England Puritan community ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
execution for alleged witchcraft in 1692 ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest | Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem, Massachusetts
|
| portrayedIn | The Crucible (as inspiration for composite characters) ⓘ |
| posthumousRecognition | recognized as wrongfully executed victim of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| relative |
Phebe Toothaker
ⓘ
Roger Toothaker ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence | Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent | outbreak of smallpox in Andover associated with her family by contemporaries ⓘ |
| spouse | Thomas Carrier ⓘ |
| subjectOf | nonfiction book "The Heretic's Daughter" (fictionalized account based on her life) ⓘ |
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: Martha Carrier Description of subject: Martha Carrier was a woman accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials and ultimately executed after being condemned as a witch.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Martha Carrier