Maria Cotton
E30445
Maria Cotton was the wife of prominent New England Puritan minister Increase Mather and a member of the influential Cotton–Mather clerical family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maria Cotton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T194353 — 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: Maria Cotton Context triple: [Increase Mather, spouse, Maria Cotton]
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A.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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D.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
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E.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
- 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: Maria Cotton Target entity description: Maria Cotton was the wife of prominent New England Puritan minister Increase Mather and a member of the influential Cotton–Mather clerical family.
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A.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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D.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
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E.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Puritan minister
ⓘ
clerical family ⓘ historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New England clergy
ⓘ
surface form:
New England Puritan clergy
|
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Mather family
ⓘ
surface form:
Cotton–Mather family
|
| notableRelative | Increase Mather ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New England
ⓘ
New England ⓘ New England ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Puritanism
ⓘ
Puritanism ⓘ Puritanism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Increase Mather
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Maria Cotton self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Maria Cotton Description of subject: Maria Cotton was the wife of prominent New England Puritan minister Increase Mather and a member of the influential Cotton–Mather clerical family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Increase Mather