Jonathan Corwin House
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The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Corwin House canonical | 5 |
| Jonathan Corwin House (The Witch House) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T988900 — 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: Jonathan Corwin House Context triple: [Jonathan Corwin, hasNotableResidence, Jonathan Corwin House]
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A.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
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B.
Edmund Fowle House
The Edmund Fowle House is a historic 18th-century residence in Watertown, Massachusetts, notable for serving as an early meeting place of the Massachusetts government during the American Revolution.
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C.
Morse-Libby House
Morse-Libby House is a lavish mid-19th-century Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Victorian architecture and interiors.
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D.
E. B. Shelfer House
The E. B. Shelfer House is a historic residence in Quincy, Florida, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
McLean House
McLean House is the historic Virginia residence where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
- 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: Jonathan Corwin House Target entity description: The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
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A.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
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B.
Edmund Fowle House
The Edmund Fowle House is a historic 18th-century residence in Watertown, Massachusetts, notable for serving as an early meeting place of the Massachusetts government during the American Revolution.
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C.
Morse-Libby House
Morse-Libby House is a lavish mid-19th-century Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Victorian architecture and interiors.
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D.
E. B. Shelfer House
The E. B. Shelfer House is a historic residence in Quincy, Florida, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
McLean House
McLean House is the historic Virginia residence where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heritage building
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historic house ⓘ museum ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Witch House
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The Witch House ⓘ
surface form:
Witch House
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| architecturalStyle | First Period colonial architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Jonathan Corwin ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
New England Colonies
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surface form:
Puritan New England
colonial justice ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| builtInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| category |
Historic house museums in Massachusetts
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Houses in Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts ⓘ Witchcraft in the United States ⓘ |
| city | Salem ⓘ |
| completionDate | circa 1675 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | Colonial America ⓘ |
| function | historic house museum ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
The Witch House
ⓘ
The Witch House ⓘ
surface form:
Witch House
|
| hasTouristAttractionType |
historic site
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house museum ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essex County, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts ⓘ Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material | wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jonathan Corwin ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 2 ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operatedAs | museum interpreting the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| ownershipType | publicly accessible historic property ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | preserved ⓘ |
| roofType | gabled roof ⓘ |
| significance |
associated with the Salem witch trials of 1692
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only surviving structure in Salem with direct ties to the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| tourismType |
dark tourism site
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heritage tourism site ⓘ |
| usedAsResidenceBy | Jonathan Corwin ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Corwin House Description of subject: The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jonathan Corwin
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Corwin House (The Witch House)
subject surface form:
Jonathan Corwin
The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House), Salem, Massachusetts
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hasAlternativeName
→
Jonathan Corwin House
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subject surface form:
The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House)