Bridget Paston
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Bridget Paston was an English gentlewoman of the prominent Paston family, best known historically as the wife of eminent jurist Sir Edward Coke.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bridget Paston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042380 — 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: Bridget Paston Context triple: [Sir Edward Coke, spouse, Bridget Paston]
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A.
Martha Rainsborough
Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
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B.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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C.
Margaret Blagge
Margaret Blagge was an English gentlewoman at the court of Charles II, noted for her piety and for being the first wife of statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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D.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
- 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: Bridget Paston Target entity description: Bridget Paston was an English gentlewoman of the prominent Paston family, best known historically as the wife of eminent jurist Sir Edward Coke.
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A.
Martha Rainsborough
Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
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B.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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C.
Margaret Blagge
Margaret Blagge was an English gentlewoman at the court of Charles II, noted for her piety and for being the first wife of statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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D.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English gentlewoman
ⓘ
member of the Paston family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Paston Letters ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
16th century
ⓘ
17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Paston ⓘ |
| father | John Paston ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Tudor England
ⓘ
early Stuart England ⓘ |
| householdRole | mistress of a gentry household ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Mautby ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Paston family ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Sir Edward Coke ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Norfolk ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| spouse |
Sir Edward Coke
ⓘ
surface form:
Edward Coke
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| spouseHonorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | jurist ⓘ |
| spousePosition |
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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surface form:
Lord Chief Justice of England
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| title | Lady Coke ⓘ |
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: Bridget Paston Description of subject: Bridget Paston was an English gentlewoman of the prominent Paston family, best known historically as the wife of eminent jurist Sir Edward Coke.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.