Clift family
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The Clift family is an American family best known for including actor Montgomery Clift and his relatives involved in the arts and entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clift family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10840907 — 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: Clift family Context triple: [William Brooks Clift, memberOf, Clift family]
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A.
Crawford family
The Crawford family was an early pioneering family in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for developing trails, hospitality services, and promoting tourism in the Crawford Notch area.
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B.
the Clifford family
The Clifford family was a prominent English noble lineage, notably associated with medieval Yorkshire and the powerful Barons Clifford.
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C.
Curtis family
The Curtis family is a prominent American family known for its significant contributions to publishing and the arts, including the founding of the Curtis Institute of Music.
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D.
Kemeny family
The Kemeny family is a notable family lineage associated with individuals such as Magda Elizabeth Kemeny.
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E.
Huston family
The Huston family is a prominent American-Irish show business dynasty known for its multi-generational contributions to film as actors, directors, and screenwriters.
- 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: Clift family Target entity description: The Clift family is an American family best known for including actor Montgomery Clift and his relatives involved in the arts and entertainment.
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A.
Crawford family
The Crawford family was an early pioneering family in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for developing trails, hospitality services, and promoting tourism in the Crawford Notch area.
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B.
the Clifford family
The Clifford family was a prominent English noble lineage, notably associated with medieval Yorkshire and the powerful Barons Clifford.
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C.
Curtis family
The Curtis family is a prominent American family known for its significant contributions to publishing and the arts, including the founding of the Curtis Institute of Music.
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D.
Kemeny family
The Kemeny family is a notable family lineage associated with individuals such as Magda Elizabeth Kemeny.
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E.
Huston family
The Huston family is a prominent American-Irish show business dynasty known for its multi-generational contributions to film as actors, directors, and screenwriters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child |
Montgomery Clift
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Brooks Clift Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-10-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-07-23 ⓘ |
| family |
Clift family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clift family NERFINISHED ⓘ Clift family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William Brooks Clift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
film acting
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performing arts ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor | having members active in arts and entertainment ⓘ |
| mother | Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montgomery Clift NERFINISHED ⓘ William Brooks Clift Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Place in the Sun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
From Here to Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Judgment at Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Red River NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heiress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ socialite ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Omaha, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sibling | Montgomery Clift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clift family Description of subject: The Clift family is an American family best known for including actor Montgomery Clift and his relatives involved in the arts and entertainment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.