Josiah Winslow
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Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josiah Winslow canonical | 16 |
| Josiah Winslow Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T225678 — 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: Josiah Winslow Context triple: [King Philip's War, hasCommander, Josiah Winslow]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
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E.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
- 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: Josiah Winslow Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
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E.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial governor
ⓘ
military leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1629 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| citizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| conflict | King Philip's War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1680-12-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| endTime | 1680 ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Winslow ⓘ |
| father | Edward Winslow ⓘ |
| givenName | Josiah ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Plymouth Colony General Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Plymouth General Court
|
| militaryBranch |
Plymouth Colony militia
ⓘ
linked to:
New England colonial militias
|
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| mother | Susanna White ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
first native-born governor of Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
led New England Confederation forces in early stages of King Philip's War ⓘ oversaw Plymouth Colony during devastation of King Philip's War ⓘ participated in colonial land negotiations with Native American leaders ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Plymouth forces in King Philip's War ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| officeContested | governorship of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| precededBy | Thomas Prence ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| relative | Peregrine White ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence | Marshfield, Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouse | Penelope Pelham ⓘ |
| startTime | 1673 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Thomas Hinckley ⓘ |
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: Josiah Winslow Description of subject: Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Josiah Winslow