Isaac Easty
E185083
Isaac Easty was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Mary Easty, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isaac Easty canonical | 1 |
| Isaac Estey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895575 — 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: Isaac Easty Context triple: [Mary Easty, spouse, Isaac Easty]
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A.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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B.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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C.
Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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D.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
- 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: Isaac Easty Target entity description: Isaac Easty was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Mary Easty, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
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A.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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B.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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C.
Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an early 17th-century English Puritan colonist and financier who played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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D.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New England colonist
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Puritan community in New England
ⓘ
Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
| associatedWithEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 1600s ⓘ |
| familyName | Easty ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Colonial America ⓘ |
| knownFor | familial connection to a woman executed for witchcraft in Salem ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of Salem witch trials victim Mary Easty ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Easty
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Eastey
Mary Easty ⓘ Mary Easty ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Esty
|
| spouseCauseOfDeath | execution for alleged witchcraft ⓘ |
| spouseDeathDate | 1692 ⓘ |
| spouseDeathPlace |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| spouseExecutionContext |
Salem witch trials
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surface form:
Salem witchcraft accusations and 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: Isaac Easty Description of subject: Isaac Easty was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Mary Easty, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.