Pollexfen family
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The Pollexfen family is an Anglo-Irish family of Sligo merchants and landowners historically associated with the maternal ancestry of poet W. B. Yeats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pollexfen family canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767727 — 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: Pollexfen family Context triple: [Susan Mary Pollexfen, memberOf, Pollexfen family]
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A.
Pynsent family
The Pynsent family was an English landed gentry lineage historically associated with estates and local influence in Somerset.
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Brangwen family
The Brangwen family is the central multigenerational farming family whose evolving relationships, desires, and social circumstances are explored across several decades in D. H. Lawrence’s novel "The Rainbow."
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C.
Lannan family
The Lannan family is a philanthropic family best known for establishing the Lannan Foundation, which supports contemporary literature, poetry, and social justice through prestigious cultural and literary awards.
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D.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
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E.
Cadogan family
The Cadogan family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically associated with substantial landholdings, political influence, and titles within the peerage of the United Kingdom.
- 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: Pollexfen family Target entity description: The Pollexfen family is an Anglo-Irish family of Sligo merchants and landowners historically associated with the maternal ancestry of poet W. B. Yeats.
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A.
Pynsent family
The Pynsent family was an English landed gentry lineage historically associated with estates and local influence in Somerset.
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B.
Brangwen family
The Brangwen family is the central multigenerational farming family whose evolving relationships, desires, and social circumstances are explored across several decades in D. H. Lawrence’s novel "The Rainbow."
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C.
Lannan family
The Lannan family is a philanthropic family best known for establishing the Lannan Foundation, which supports contemporary literature, poetry, and social justice through prestigious cultural and literary awards.
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D.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
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E.
Cadogan family
The Cadogan family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically associated with substantial landholdings, political influence, and titles within the peerage of the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Irish family
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landowning family ⓘ merchant family ⓘ |
| associatedWithField | Irish literary history ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| associatedWithPlace | Sligo ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| economicRole | urban commerce in Sligo ⓘ |
| economicSector |
property ownership
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| ethnicOrCulturalIdentity | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Pollexfen ⓘ |
| historicalActivity |
landownership
ⓘ
merchant trade ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Connacht ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maternalLineOf |
W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| memberOfSocialClass |
Irish middle class
ⓘ
provincial bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| notableFor | maternal ancestry of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| region | County Sligo ⓘ |
| relatedToFamily | Yeats family ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Protestant ⓘ |
| socialRole | local elites in Sligo ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century Ireland ⓘ |
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: Pollexfen family Description of subject: The Pollexfen family is an Anglo-Irish family of Sligo merchants and landowners historically associated with the maternal ancestry of poet W. B. Yeats.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.