Dorcas Good
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Dorcas Good was one of the youngest individuals accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorcas Good canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787750 — 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: Dorcas Good Context triple: [Dorothy Good, alsoKnownAs, Dorcas Good]
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Dorcas
Dorcas is the young, enigmatic woman whose tragic love affair and death drive the central events and emotional tensions in Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz."
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B.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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C.
Dolly Sharp
Dolly Sharp was an American adult film actress best known for her role in the landmark 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat."
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D.
Keziah Mason
Keziah Mason is a sinister witch from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, known for her occult knowledge of non-Euclidean geometry and extradimensional travel.
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E.
Cora Simmons
Cora Simmons is a devout, good-natured Christian woman and the often exasperated daughter of the outspoken matriarch Madea in Tyler Perry’s film and stage universe.
- 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: Dorcas Good Target entity description: Dorcas Good was one of the youngest individuals accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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A.
Dorcas
Dorcas is the young, enigmatic woman whose tragic love affair and death drive the central events and emotional tensions in Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz."
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B.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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C.
Dolly Sharp
Dolly Sharp was an American adult film actress best known for her role in the landmark 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat."
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D.
Keziah Mason
Keziah Mason is a sinister witch from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, known for her occult knowledge of non-Euclidean geometry and extradimensional travel.
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E.
Cora Simmons
Cora Simmons is a devout, good-natured Christian woman and the often exasperated daughter of the outspoken matriarch Madea in Tyler Perry’s film and stage universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials figure
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person ⓘ |
| accusationBy | Salem Village accusers ⓘ |
| accusedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| ageAtEvent | about 4 years old during the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dorothy Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 1692 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Dorcas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Sarah Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | accused child ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Essex County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Sarah Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherAccusedOf | witchcraft ⓘ |
| motherExecutedIn | Salem witch trials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | interrogation on suspicion of witchcraft in 1692 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the youngest people accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| participantIn | Salem witch trials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Salem Village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
articles on child accusations in witch trials
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books about the Salem witch trials ⓘ historical studies of the Salem witch 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: Dorcas Good Description of subject: Dorcas Good was one of the youngest individuals accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.