Sewall
E92979
Sewall is a surname most notably associated with Samuel Sewall, a colonial American judge remembered for his role in and later condemnation of the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sewall canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782520 — 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: Sewall Context triple: [Samuel Sewall, familyName, Sewall]
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A.
Arbella
Arbella was the flagship that carried John Winthrop and other Puritan settlers to New England during the Great Migration of 1630.
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B.
Van Dyke
Van Dyke is the distinctive given name of American composer, arranger, and songwriter Van Dyke Parks, noted for his influential work in pop and experimental music.
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C.
Sherwin
Sherwin is a surname most notably associated with Martin J. Sherwin, an American historian known for his work on nuclear history and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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D.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
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E.
Wait Winthrop
Wait Winthrop was a colonial New England military officer, magistrate, and political figure who played a prominent role in late 17th-century Massachusetts governance.
- 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: Sewall Target entity description: Sewall is a surname most notably associated with Samuel Sewall, a colonial American judge remembered for his role in and later condemnation of the Salem witch trials.
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A.
Arbella
Arbella was the flagship that carried John Winthrop and other Puritan settlers to New England during the Great Migration of 1630.
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B.
Van Dyke
Van Dyke is the distinctive given name of American composer, arranger, and songwriter Van Dyke Parks, noted for his influential work in pop and experimental music.
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C.
Sherwin
Sherwin is a surname most notably associated with Martin J. Sherwin, an American historian known for his work on nuclear history and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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D.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
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E.
Wait Winthrop
Wait Winthrop was a colonial New England military officer, magistrate, and political figure who played a prominent role in late 17th-century Massachusetts governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American judge
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educator ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colonial America
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Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| expressedRegretFor | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sewall
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Sewall ⓘ Sewall ⓘ Sewall ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Harold Sewall
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Jonathan Sewall ⓘ Louise Sewall ⓘ May Wright Sewall ⓘ Rufus Sewall ⓘ Samuel Sewall ⓘ Stephen Sewall ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Seawall
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Sewell ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
later condemnation of the Salem witch trials
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role in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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judge ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ magistrate ⓘ politician ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname in England
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surname in the United States ⓘ |
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: Sewall Description of subject: Sewall is a surname most notably associated with Samuel Sewall, a colonial American judge remembered for his role in and later condemnation of the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.