John Proctor
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John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Proctor canonical | 11 |
| Proctor | 2 |
| John Proctor in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7555 — 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: John Proctor Context triple: [Salem witch trials, notableVictim, John Proctor]
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A.
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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B.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
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C.
Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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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.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
- 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: John Proctor Target entity description: John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
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A.
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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B.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
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C.
Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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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.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials victim
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historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| century | 17th century ⓘ |
| challenged | legitimacy of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| citizenship | English colonial American ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| deathCause | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| event | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| familyName |
John Proctor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Proctor
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| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | events dramatized in "The Crucible" ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America ⓘ |
| inspiredCharacter |
John Proctor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
John Proctor in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible"
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| knownFor | refusing to falsely confess to witchcraft ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of resistance to mass hysteria and injustice ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtDeath | convicted of witchcraft ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being executed during the Salem witch trials
ⓘ
challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| opposed | use of spectral evidence in witchcraft trials ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
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surface form:
Salem Village (present-day Danvers, Massachusetts)
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| portrayedIn | The Crucible ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| spouse | Elizabeth Proctor ⓘ |
| victimOf | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
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: John Proctor Description of subject: John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Proctor
this entity surface form:
John Proctor in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible"
subject surface form:
John Proctor
this entity surface form:
Proctor