Pearson family
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The Pearson family is the central multigenerational family featured in the television drama series "This Is Us," around whom the show's emotional storylines revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pearson family canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13334453 — 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: Pearson family Context triple: [Randall Pearson, adoptedIntoFamily, Pearson family]
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A.
Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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B.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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C.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
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D.
Parsons family
The Parsons family is an Anglo-Irish aristocratic lineage prominent in Irish political, scientific, and social life, notably associated with the Earls of Rosse.
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E.
Penn family
The Penn family is a prominent English Quaker family best known for William Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania in colonial America.
- 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: Pearson family Target entity description: The Pearson family is the central multigenerational family featured in the television drama series "This Is Us," around whom the show's emotional storylines revolve.
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A.
Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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B.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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C.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
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D.
Parsons family
The Parsons family is an Anglo-Irish aristocratic lineage prominent in Irish political, scientific, and social life, notably associated with the Earls of Rosse.
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E.
Penn family
The Penn family is a prominent English Quaker family best known for William Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania in colonial America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family
ⓘ
television character group ⓘ |
| appearsIn | This Is Us ⓘ |
| centralFamilyOf | This Is Us ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Dan Fogelman ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
This Is Us season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
This Is Us
|
| firstAppearanceDate | 2016-09-20 ⓘ |
| genre |
family drama
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romantic drama ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Annie Pearson
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Beth Pearson ⓘ Deja Pearson ⓘ Hailey Damon ⓘ Jack Damon ⓘ Jack Pearson ⓘ Kate Pearson ⓘ Kevin Pearson ⓘ Madison Simons ⓘ Malik Hodges ⓘ Miguel Rivas ⓘ Nicky Pearson ⓘ Randall Pearson ⓘ Rebecca Pearson ⓘ Tess Pearson ⓘ Toby Damon ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
addiction
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adoption ⓘ body image ⓘ grief ⓘ marriage ⓘ mental health ⓘ parenthood ⓘ race and identity ⓘ sibling relationships ⓘ |
| knownFor |
emotionally charged storylines
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nonlinear timelines ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusIn | multigenerational storytelling ⓘ |
| partOf | NBC television programming ⓘ |
| portrayedAcross | multiple timelines ⓘ |
| setIn |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
Pittsburgh ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| timePeriodCovered |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ future scenes ⓘ |
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: Pearson family Description of subject: The Pearson family is the central multigenerational family featured in the television drama series "This Is Us," around whom the show's emotional storylines revolve.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.