William Bradford
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William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Bradford canonical | 37 |
| Governor William Bradford | 1 |
| William Bradford (colonial printer) | 1 |
| William Bradford Jr. | 1 |
| William Bradford the younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7634 — 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 Bradford Context triple: [Mayflower landing at Plymouth, associatedWith, William Bradford]
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A.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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B.
William Penn
William Penn was an English Quaker leader and political philosopher who founded the Province of Pennsylvania as a haven for religious freedom and democratic governance in colonial America.
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C.
Governor William Phips
Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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D.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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E.
John Hancock
John Hancock was a prominent American Founding Father, revolutionary leader, and the first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his bold and iconic signature.
- 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 Bradford Target entity description: William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
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A.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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B.
William Penn
William Penn was an English Quaker leader and political philosopher who founded the Province of Pennsylvania as a haven for religious freedom and democratic governance in colonial America.
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C.
Governor William Phips
Governor William Phips was the colonial governor of Massachusetts best known for overseeing and ultimately halting the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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D.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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E.
John Hancock
John Hancock was a prominent American Founding Father, revolutionary leader, and the first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his bold and iconic signature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pilgrim leader
ⓘ
Separatist ⓘ author ⓘ colonial governor ⓘ historian ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1590-03-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Austerfield, Yorkshire, England ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| child |
John Bradford
ⓘ
Joseph Bradford ⓘ Mercy Bradford ⓘ William Bradford self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
William Bradford Jr.
|
| citizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1657-05-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Plymouth, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
|
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Bradford ⓘ |
| genre |
history
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ religious writing ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influenced | Puritan and colonial American historiography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
governorship of Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
leadership of the Pilgrims ⓘ writing "Of Plymouth Plantation" ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Pilgrims
ⓘ
Separatist congregation at Leiden ⓘ |
| notableWork | Of Plymouth Plantation ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
colonial governor ⓘ farmer ⓘ historian ⓘ weaver ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1657 ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1621 ⓘ |
| participantIn |
founding of Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
signing of the Mayflower Compact ⓘ Mayflower ⓘ
surface form:
voyage of the Mayflower
|
| positionHeld | Governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| precededBy | John Carver ⓘ |
| religion |
English Separatist movement
ⓘ
surface form:
English Separatism
Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence |
Leiden
ⓘ
surface form:
Leiden, Dutch Republic
Plymouth, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
|
| signed | Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alice Carpenter Southworth
ⓘ
Dorothy May ⓘ |
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: William Bradford Description of subject: William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Bradford Jr.
this entity surface form:
William Bradford (colonial printer)
subject surface form:
Burial Hill
subject surface form:
Burial Hill
this entity surface form:
Governor William Bradford
this entity surface form:
William Bradford the younger