Mary Corey
E106776
Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Corey canonical | 1 |
| Mary Corey (wife of Giles Corey) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T905699 — 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: Mary Corey Context triple: [Old Burying Point Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Mary Corey]
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A.
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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B.
Martha Carrier
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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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Mary Doe
Mary Doe is the pseudonymous woman whose challenge to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law led to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, decided alongside Roe v. Wade.
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E.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first person executed 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: Mary Corey Target entity description: Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
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A.
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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B.
Martha Carrier
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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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Mary Doe
Mary Doe is the pseudonymous woman whose challenge to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law led to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, decided alongside Roe v. Wade.
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E.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first person executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| familyName | Corey ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | colonial era ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with Salem witch trials era ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| residence |
Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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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: Mary Corey Description of subject: Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Corey (wife of Giles Corey)