Calder family
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The Calder family is a notable American artistic dynasty best known for producing influential sculptors, including Alexander Calder, a pioneer of the mobile.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calder family canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6413042 — 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: Calder family Context triple: [Louisa James, memberOf, Calder family]
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A.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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B.
Campbell family
The Campbell family is a powerful Scottish Highland clan historically centered in Argyll, long prominent in Scottish politics and nobility.
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C.
Stewart family
The Stewart family was a prominent Scottish noble lineage that rose to become the royal House of Stuart, ruling Scotland and later England and Ireland.
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D.
Lennox family
The Lennox family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically linked to the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, with long-standing ties to the Goodwood estate and its famous racecourse.
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E.
Kirkpatrick family
The Kirkpatrick family is a historic Scottish clan of Dumfriesshire, long associated with the lands of Closeburn and known for its role in the turbulent medieval and early modern border history.
- 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: Calder family Target entity description: The Calder family is a notable American artistic dynasty best known for producing influential sculptors, including Alexander Calder, a pioneer of the mobile.
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A.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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B.
Campbell family
The Campbell family is a powerful Scottish Highland clan historically centered in Argyll, long prominent in Scottish politics and nobility.
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C.
Stewart family
The Stewart family was a prominent Scottish noble lineage that rose to become the royal House of Stuart, ruling Scotland and later England and Ireland.
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D.
Lennox family
The Lennox family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically linked to the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, with long-standing ties to the Goodwood estate and its famous racecourse.
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E.
Kirkpatrick family
The Kirkpatrick family is a historic Scottish clan of Dumfriesshire, long associated with the lands of Closeburn and known for its role in the turbulent medieval and early modern border history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
artistic family ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
abstract sculpture
ⓘ
kinetic sculpture ⓘ public sculpture ⓘ public sculpture ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| hasArtisticInfluenceOn |
kinetic art
ⓘ
modern sculpture ⓘ |
| hasFamilyTradition |
art
ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ |
| hasLineage | Alexander Milne Calder → Alexander Stirling Calder → Alexander Calder ⓘ |
| hasMultiGenerationalPractice | sculpture ⓘ |
| hasThreeGenerationsInSameProfession | sculpture ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Calder family
ⓘ
Calder family ⓘ Calder family ⓘ |
| movement |
Abstract art
ⓘ
Modern art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inventing hanging kinetic sculptures called mobiles
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pioneering the mobile ⓘ producing influential sculptors ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Alexander Calder
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Alexander Milne Calder ⓘ Alexander Stirling Calder ⓘ |
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: Calder family Description of subject: The Calder family is a notable American artistic dynasty best known for producing influential sculptors, including Alexander Calder, a pioneer of the mobile.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Louisa James (grandniece of Henry James)
subject linked to:
Calder family
subject linked to:
Calder family
subject linked to:
Calder family