Mary Warren
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Mary Warren is a timid and impressionable servant girl in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," whose wavering testimony and susceptibility to pressure help fuel the Salem witch trials hysteria.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Warren canonical | 9 |
| Mary Warren (historical person) | 1 |
| interacts closely with John Proctor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T49124 — 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 Warren Context triple: [The Crucible, hasCharacter, Mary Warren]
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A.
Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams is a central, manipulative accuser in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*, whose lies help fuel the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Elizabeth Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," portrayed as a morally upright but emotionally reserved wife whose integrity and strained marriage to John Proctor are tested amid the Salem witch trials.
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C.
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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D.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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E.
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.
- 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 Warren Target entity description: Mary Warren is a timid and impressionable servant girl in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," whose wavering testimony and susceptibility to pressure help fuel the Salem witch trials hysteria.
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A.
Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams is a central, manipulative accuser in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*, whose lies help fuel the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Elizabeth Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," portrayed as a morally upright but emotionally reserved wife whose integrity and strained marriage to John Proctor are tested amid the Salem witch trials.
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C.
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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D.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Abigail Williams and the other girls
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Proctor household ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Crucible ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mary Warren
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary Warren (historical person)
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| creator | Arthur Miller ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
illustrates how ordinary people become complicit in injustice
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shows the power of fear in silencing truth ⓘ |
| employer |
Elizabeth Proctor
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John Proctor ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Salem witch trials
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surface form:
Salem witch trials (as depicted in The Crucible)
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| firstAppearance |
The Crucible
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surface form:
The Crucible (1953)
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Abigail Williams ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Colonial American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
attempts to recant her accusations in court
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gives Elizabeth Proctor a poppet ⓘ later rejoins the accusing girls under pressure ⓘ participates in accusing townspeople of witchcraft ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
easily influenced
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fearful ⓘ impressionable ⓘ timid ⓘ |
| pressuredBy |
John Proctor
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Court of Oyer and Terminer ⓘ
surface form:
the Salem court
|
| relationshipTo |
Abigail Williams
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Elizabeth Proctor ⓘ John Proctor ⓘ Reverend John Hale ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWith Elizabeth Proctor | servant-mistress ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWith John Proctor | servant-master ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
accuser in the Salem witch trials
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member of the group of afflicted girls ⓘ witness in court proceedings ⓘ |
| setting | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
guilt and responsibility
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mass hysteria ⓘ moral weakness ⓘ peer pressure ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1692 ⓘ |
| workOfFictionCountryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Mary Warren Description of subject: Mary Warren is a timid and impressionable servant girl in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," whose wavering testimony and susceptibility to pressure help fuel the Salem witch trials hysteria.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
interacts closely with John Proctor
this entity surface form:
Mary Warren (historical person)