Brody family
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The Brody family is a fictional household featured in the "Jaws" franchise, centered around police chief Martin Brody and his relatives as they confront shark-related threats in the coastal town of Amity Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brody family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5948728 — 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: Brody family Context triple: [Michael Brody, partOfFamily, Brody family]
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A.
Brooke family
The Brooke family was a prominent early American family whose influence and leadership in the region led to Brooke County, West Virginia being named in their honor.
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B.
Brooke family
The Brooke family were a British dynasty known as the "White Rajahs" who ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak on the island of Borneo from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
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C.
Walker family
The Walker family is a prominent American political and business dynasty closely connected to the Bush family through generations of influence and public service.
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D.
Brooks family
The Brooks family is an American family of social prominence and historical note, associated with figures such as socialite Henrietta Louise Cromwell Brooks.
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E.
Jay family
The Jay family is a prominent American lineage best known for producing influential figures such as Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay.
- 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: Brody family Target entity description: The Brody family is a fictional household featured in the "Jaws" franchise, centered around police chief Martin Brody and his relatives as they confront shark-related threats in the coastal town of Amity Island.
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A.
Brooke family
The Brooke family was a prominent early American family whose influence and leadership in the region led to Brooke County, West Virginia being named in their honor.
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B.
Brooke family
The Brooke family were a British dynasty known as the "White Rajahs" who ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak on the island of Borneo from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
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C.
Walker family
The Walker family is a prominent American political and business dynasty closely connected to the Bush family through generations of influence and public service.
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D.
Brooks family
The Brooks family is an American family of social prominence and historical note, associated with figures such as socialite Henrietta Louise Cromwell Brooks.
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E.
Jay family
The Jay family is a prominent American lineage best known for producing influential figures such as Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fictional family ⓘ fictional household ⓘ fictional town ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jaws
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Jaws 2 ⓘ Jaws 3-D ⓘ Jaws franchise ⓘ Jaws: The Revenge ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Martin Brody ⓘ |
| child |
Michael Brody
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Sean Brody ⓘ |
| conflictWith | great white shark ⓘ |
| featuresFamily | Brody family ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Jaws franchise ⓘ |
| member |
Ellen Brody
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Martin Brody ⓘ Michael Brody ⓘ Sean Brody ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist family ⓘ |
| occupation |
Amity Island police chief
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police chief ⓘ |
| parent |
Ellen Brody
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Martin Brody ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Lorraine Gary
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Roy Scheider ⓘ |
| residence | Amity Island ⓘ |
| setIn | Amity Island ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ellen Brody
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Martin Brody ⓘ |
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: Brody family Description of subject: The Brody family is a fictional household featured in the "Jaws" franchise, centered around police chief Martin Brody and his relatives as they confront shark-related threats in the coastal town of Amity Island.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brody family