Herbert family
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The Herbert family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically associated with the Earls of Powis and other notable noble titles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert family canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1087924 — 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: Herbert family Context triple: [Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, nobleFamily, Herbert family]
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Balfour family
The Balfour family is a prominent Scottish landed family historically associated with estates such as Balbirnie Park and influential in regional politics and society.
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Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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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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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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Clive family
The Clive family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing influential political and colonial figures, including Robert Clive, key to establishing British rule in India.
- 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: Herbert family Target entity description: The Herbert family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically associated with the Earls of Powis and other notable noble titles.
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A.
Balfour family
The Balfour family is a prominent Scottish landed family historically associated with estates such as Balbirnie Park and influential in regional politics and society.
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B.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Clive family
The Clive family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing influential political and colonial figures, including Robert Clive, key to establishing British rule in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Herbert family Description of subject: The Herbert family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage historically associated with the Earls of Powis and other notable noble titles.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Evelyn Waugh’s wife Laura Herbert (Herbert family grave)?
subject linked to:
3rd Earl of Carnarvon
subject linked to:
3rd Earl of Carnarvon
George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
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memberOfNobleFamily
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Herbert family
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subject linked to:
8th Earl of Carnarvon
subject linked to:
5th Earl of Carnarvon