Silver family
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The Silver family is a philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to education and social work, including endowing New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silver family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7413853 — 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: Silver family Context triple: [NYU Silver School of Social Work, namedAfter, Silver family]
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A.
Stone family
The Stone family is a lineage or household to which James Hicks Stone belongs.
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B.
Rose family
The Rose family is a prominent benefactor family whose legacy and contributions are commemorated through institutions such as the Rose Museum.
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C.
Sen family
The Sen family is the hereditary lineage of Japanese tea masters descended from Sen no Rikyū, central to the development and transmission of the Japanese tea ceremony.
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D.
Greg family
The Greg family was a prominent British industrialist and merchant dynasty influential in the development of the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Ray family
The Ray family is a local family whose name was given to the town of Rayville in northeastern Louisiana, reflecting their historical significance to the area.
- 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: Silver family Target entity description: The Silver family is a philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to education and social work, including endowing New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.
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A.
Stone family
The Stone family is a lineage or household to which James Hicks Stone belongs.
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B.
Rose family
The Rose family is a prominent benefactor family whose legacy and contributions are commemorated through institutions such as the Rose Museum.
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C.
Sen family
The Sen family is the hereditary lineage of Japanese tea masters descended from Sen no Rikyū, central to the development and transmission of the Japanese tea ceremony.
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D.
Greg family
The Greg family was a prominent British industrialist and merchant dynasty influential in the development of the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Ray family
The Ray family is a local family whose name was given to the town of Rayville in northeastern Louisiana, reflecting their historical significance to the area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philanthropic family
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philanthropist ⓘ school of social work ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York University ⓘ |
| beneficiaryOfPhilanthropy | New York University Silver School of Social Work students ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educatedAt | New York University ⓘ |
| endowed |
New York University Silver School of Social Work
ⓘ
linked to:
NYU Silver School of Social Work
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| fieldOfPhilanthropy |
higher education
ⓘ
social services ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Julius Silver ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor | significant charitable contributions ⓘ |
| impactOn |
New York University’s academic programs
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social work profession ⓘ |
| knownFor |
major donations to New York University
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philanthropy ⓘ support for education ⓘ support for social work ⓘ |
| mainLocationOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Julius Silver
ⓘ
Silver family ⓘ |
| partOf | New York University ⓘ |
| typeOfPhilanthropy |
educational endowments
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support for social work education ⓘ |
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: Silver family Description of subject: The Silver family is a philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to education and social work, including endowing New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Silver family