William Good
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William Good was a 17th-century Massachusetts farmer best known as the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused and executed during the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Good canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T605826 — 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: William Good Context triple: [Sarah Good, spouse, William Good]
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A.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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B.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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C.
Francis Nurse
Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Ralph Stackpole
Ralph Stackpole was an American sculptor and painter associated with the San Francisco art scene, known for his public works and contributions to New Deal–era projects.
- 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: William Good Target entity description: William Good was a 17th-century Massachusetts farmer best known as the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused and executed during the Salem witch trials.
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A.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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B.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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C.
Francis Nurse
Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Ralph Stackpole
Ralph Stackpole was an American sculptor and painter associated with the San Francisco art scene, known for his public works and contributions to New Deal–era projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farmer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sarah Good
ⓘ
early phase of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| centuryOfResidence | 17th century Massachusetts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| familyName | Good ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | New England ⓘ |
| livedInPoliticalEntity | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being associated with the early accusations in the Salem witch trials through his wife
ⓘ
being the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused in the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
ⓘ
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) ⓘ
surface form:
Salem Village
|
| socialStatus | poor farmer ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Good ⓘ |
| spouseAccusation | accused of witchcraft ⓘ |
| spouseExecutionContext | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| spouseFate | executed for witchcraft ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
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: William Good Description of subject: William Good was a 17th-century Massachusetts farmer best known as the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused and executed during the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.