Adams family
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The Adams family is a prominent American political dynasty that includes multiple U.S. presidents, diplomats, and public figures spanning several generations.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adams family canonical | 27 |
| Adams political family | 15 |
| Adams family furnishings | 2 |
| Adams Family Papers | 1 |
| Adams family library | 1 |
| Adams family papers | 1 |
| Adams political dynasty | 1 |
| Adams presidential family | 1 |
| John Adams family | 1 |
| John Quincy Adams family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T482264 — 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: Adams family Context triple: [Charles Adams, notableFamily, Adams family]
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A.
Roosevelt family
The Roosevelt family is a prominent American political dynasty best known for producing U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with numerous other influential public figures.
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B.
Johnson family
The Johnson family is an American business dynasty best known for its ownership of the New York Jets and its ties to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
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C.
Smith family
The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
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D.
Truman family
The Truman family is an American political family best known for producing Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States.
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E.
Kennedy family
The Kennedy family is a prominent American political dynasty known for its influential roles in U.S. politics, public service, and social life throughout the 20th century.
- 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: Adams family Target entity description: The Adams family is a prominent American political dynasty that includes multiple U.S. presidents, diplomats, and public figures spanning several generations.
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A.
Roosevelt family
The Roosevelt family is a prominent American political dynasty best known for producing U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with numerous other influential public figures.
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B.
Johnson family
The Johnson family is an American business dynasty best known for its ownership of the New York Jets and its ties to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
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C.
Smith family
The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
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D.
Truman family
The Truman family is an American political family best known for producing Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States.
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E.
Kennedy family
The Kennedy family is a prominent American political dynasty known for its influential roles in U.S. politics, public service, and social life throughout the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American political dynasty
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ political family ⓘ |
| child | John Quincy Adams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| father | John Adams ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
diplomacy
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law ⓘ politics ⓘ public service ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin |
English American
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surface form:
English Americans
|
| hasMainRegionOfActivity |
Massachusetts
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New England ⓘ |
| hasNotableOfficeHeldByMembers |
Governor of Massachusetts
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ U.S. Representative ⓘ
surface form:
United States Representative
United States Secretary of State ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalAffiliation |
Democratic-Republican Party
ⓘ
Federalists ⓘ
surface form:
Federalist Party
Whig Party ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence on early American foreign policy
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involvement in American Revolution and early republic ⓘ leadership in the American Revolution ⓘ producing two U.S. presidents ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Adams family
self-linksurface differs
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Adams family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Adams family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Adams family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Adams family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Adams family self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| mother | Abigail Adams ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Abigail Adams
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Charles Francis Adams Jr. ⓘ Charles Francis Adams Sr. ⓘ John Adams ⓘ John Quincy Adams ⓘ Louisa Catherine Adams ⓘ Samuel Adams ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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railroad executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
1st Vice President of the United States
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2nd President of the United States ⓘ 6th President of the United States ⓘ Governor of Massachusetts ⓘ United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United States Minister to the United Kingdom
U.S. Representative ⓘ
surface form:
United States Representative
United States Secretary of State ⓘ United States diplomat ⓘ |
| spouse |
Abigail Adams
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John Adams ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ early United States history ⓘ |
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: Adams family Description of subject: The Adams family is a prominent American political dynasty that includes multiple U.S. presidents, diplomats, and public figures spanning several generations.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams Family Papers
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John Quincy Adams II
this entity surface form:
Adams political family
subject surface form:
John Adams
subject surface form:
John Quincy Adams
subject surface form:
Samuel Adams
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Charles Francis Adams Sr.
subject surface form:
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
subject surface form:
Abigail Adams
this entity surface form:
Adams political family
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Adams family furnishings
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Adams family library
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Adams political dynasty
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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John Adams family
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John Quincy Adams family
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Adams presidential family
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Record of a Life, or My Story
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams political family
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Adams family papers
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Adams political family
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Adams family furnishings