Mohun family
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The Mohun family was an influential English noble lineage prominent in Cornwall and the West Country from the medieval period into the early modern era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mohun family canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102203 — 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: Mohun family Context triple: [Boconnoc, Cornwall, formerlyOwnedBy, Mohun family]
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A.
Hotak family
The Hotak family was an Afghan Pashtun lineage that founded and led the early 18th-century Hotak dynasty, which briefly ruled parts of Persia and Afghanistan.
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B.
Holkar family
The Holkar family was a prominent Maratha dynasty that rose to power in the 18th century and ruled the princely state of Indore in central India.
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C.
Thakur family
The Thakur family, better known internationally as the Tagore family, is a prominent Bengali lineage renowned for its profound contributions to literature, music, art, and social reform in India.
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D.
Lashmeet family
The Lashmeet family is a local family after whom the community of Lashmeet in West Virginia was named, reflecting their historical significance in the area.
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E.
Bhat family
The Bhat family was the influential Chitpavan Brahmin lineage that produced the hereditary Peshwas who effectively ruled the Maratha Empire in the 18th 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: Mohun family Target entity description: The Mohun family was an influential English noble lineage prominent in Cornwall and the West Country from the medieval period into the early modern era.
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A.
Hotak family
The Hotak family was an Afghan Pashtun lineage that founded and led the early 18th-century Hotak dynasty, which briefly ruled parts of Persia and Afghanistan.
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B.
Holkar family
The Holkar family was a prominent Maratha dynasty that rose to power in the 18th century and ruled the princely state of Indore in central India.
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C.
Thakur family
The Thakur family, better known internationally as the Tagore family, is a prominent Bengali lineage renowned for its profound contributions to literature, music, art, and social reform in India.
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D.
Lashmeet family
The Lashmeet family is a local family after whom the community of Lashmeet in West Virginia was named, reflecting their historical significance in the area.
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E.
Bhat family
The Bhat family was the influential Chitpavan Brahmin lineage that produced the hereditary Peshwas who effectively ruled the Maratha Empire in the 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | English noble family ⓘ |
| activeUntil | early modern period ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
landed estates in Cornwall
ⓘ
landed estates in the West Country ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| governedUnder | feudal system in England ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Mohun ⓘ |
| hasReputation | influential regional magnates ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
part of English medieval aristocracy
ⓘ
prominent in regional politics ⓘ |
| influentialIn |
Cornwall
ⓘ
West Country ⓘ
linked to:
southwest England
|
| languageOfOrigin | Middle English ⓘ |
| notableFrom | medieval period ⓘ |
| region |
Cornwall
ⓘ
West Country ⓘ
linked to:
southwest England
|
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| typeOfLineage | hereditary noble lineage ⓘ |
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: Mohun family Description of subject: The Mohun family was an influential English noble lineage prominent in Cornwall and the West Country from the medieval period into the early modern era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.