Elizabeth Parris
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Elizabeth Parris was the young daughter of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, whose strange afflictions in 1692 helped spark the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Parris canonical | 10 |
| Elizabeth Parris (née Eldridge) | 1 |
| Elizabeth Parris Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T605830 — 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.
Target entity: Elizabeth Parris Context triple: [Sarah Good, wasAccusedBy, Elizabeth Parris]
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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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Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell was a British painter and interior designer closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and known for her innovative post-impressionist style and role in early 20th-century modernist art.
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Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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Harriet Burrow
Harriet Burrow was the mother of the influential British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill.
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Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Elizabeth Parris Target entity description: Elizabeth Parris was the young daughter of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, whose strange afflictions in 1692 helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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A.
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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B.
Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell was a British painter and interior designer closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and known for her innovative post-impressionist style and role in early 20th-century modernist art.
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C.
Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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D.
Harriet Burrow
Harriet Burrow was the mother of the influential British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child witness
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historical figure ⓘ |
| ageAtEvent | child ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| causeOf | heightened fear of witchcraft in Salem Village ⓘ |
| child | Elizabeth Parris self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| culture |
Puritanism
ⓘ
surface form:
New England Puritan society
|
| date | 1692 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Susannah Parris
ⓘ
surface form:
Parris
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| father | Samuel Parris ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition | mysterious afflictions in early 1692 ⓘ |
| hasRole | accuser in early Salem witchcraft cases ⓘ |
| influenced | accusations of witchcraft in Salem Village ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | historical accounts of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the origins of the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| occupation | Puritan minister ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Salem witch trials
ⓘ
Salem witch trials ⓘ events leading to the Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
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surface form:
Salem Village
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| positionHeld | minister of Salem Village ⓘ |
| relative |
Abigail Williams
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Elizabeth Parris self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residenceDuringEvent | household of Samuel Parris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 17th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Elizabeth Parris Description of subject: Elizabeth Parris was the young daughter of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, whose strange afflictions in 1692 helped spark the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.