Corey family
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The Corey family is a prominent, old-money Boston Brahmin family featured in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing traditional New England aristocratic values.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corey family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8679548 — 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: Corey family Context triple: [Silas Lapham, associatedWithFamily, Corey family]
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Cody family
The Cody family is a fictional Australian crime family central to the film and television series "Animal Kingdom," known for its matriarch-led, highly dysfunctional and violent criminal activities.
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B.
Brody family
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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C.
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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D.
North family
The North family is a prominent English aristocratic lineage that produced several notable statesmen and peers, particularly influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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E.
Berylson family
The Berylson family is a philanthropic family recognized for its significant support of educational and athletic institutions.
- 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: Corey family Target entity description: The Corey family is a prominent, old-money Boston Brahmin family featured in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing traditional New England aristocratic values.
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A.
Cody family
The Cody family is a fictional Australian crime family central to the film and television series "Animal Kingdom," known for its matriarch-led, highly dysfunctional and violent criminal activities.
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B.
Brody family
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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C.
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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D.
North family
The North family is a prominent English aristocratic lineage that produced several notable statesmen and peers, particularly influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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E.
Berylson family
The Berylson family is a philanthropic family recognized for its significant support of educational and athletic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional family ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorMovement | American realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Lapham family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silas Lapham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Dean Howells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalBackground | New England elite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyMember |
Bromfield Corey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanny Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResidenceLocation | Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettingPeriod | late 19th-century Boston ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | Boston Brahmin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
class conflict
ⓘ
old money vs. new money ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| hasWealthType | old money ⓘ |
| isDescribedAs |
aristocratic family
ⓘ
prominent Boston family ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American literary canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | foil to Silas Lapham’s rise ⓘ |
| represents | traditional New England aristocratic values ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cultural refinement
ⓘ
established social hierarchy ⓘ social conservatism ⓘ |
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: Corey family Description of subject: The Corey family is a prominent, old-money Boston Brahmin family featured in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing traditional New England aristocratic values.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.