Codman family
E180646
The Codman family is a prominent New England family known for its long-standing social, economic, and cultural influence, particularly in the Boston area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Codman family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1599377 — 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: Codman family Context triple: [Codman Estate, associatedWithFamily, Codman family]
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A.
Crozer family
The Crozer family was a prominent American industrial and philanthropic family whose wealth and donations significantly supported religious and educational institutions, including the seminary that bore their name.
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B.
Klarman family
The Klarman family is a prominent philanthropic family known for major donations to educational and cultural institutions, including Harvard Business School.
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C.
Gleason family
The Gleason family is a prominent American industrial and engineering dynasty known for its leadership of the Gleason Works gear-manufacturing company and for pioneering contributions to mechanical engineering and business.
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D.
Fricke family
The Fricke family is a benefactor family associated with the University of California, Berkeley, whose philanthropy is commemorated through the naming of Levine-Fricke Field.
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E.
Lowell family
The Lowell family is a prominent New England dynasty known for its influential roles in American literature, education, law, and public life from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
- 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: Codman family Target entity description: The Codman family is a prominent New England family known for its long-standing social, economic, and cultural influence, particularly in the Boston area.
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A.
Crozer family
The Crozer family was a prominent American industrial and philanthropic family whose wealth and donations significantly supported religious and educational institutions, including the seminary that bore their name.
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B.
Klarman family
The Klarman family is a prominent philanthropic family known for major donations to educational and cultural institutions, including Harvard Business School.
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C.
Gleason family
The Gleason family is a prominent American industrial and engineering dynasty known for its leadership of the Gleason Works gear-manufacturing company and for pioneering contributions to mechanical engineering and business.
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D.
Fricke family
The Fricke family is a benefactor family associated with the University of California, Berkeley, whose philanthropy is commemorated through the naming of Levine-Fricke Field.
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E.
Lowell family
The Lowell family is a prominent New England dynasty known for its influential roles in American literature, education, law, and public life from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New England elite family
ⓘ
family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Boston Brahmins ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalSphere | New England culture ⓘ |
| economicSphere | Boston economy ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
architecture
ⓘ
business ⓘ landscape architecture ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Charles R. Codman
ⓘ
Henry Sargent Codman ⓘ John Codman ⓘ Ogden Codman Jr. ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
long-standing influence in Boston society
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participation in New England cultural life ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cultural influence in Boston
ⓘ
economic influence in Boston ⓘ social influence in Boston ⓘ |
| notableCity |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| placeOfInfluence |
Boston metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| socialSphere | Boston high society ⓘ |
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: Codman family Description of subject: The Codman family is a prominent New England family known for its long-standing social, economic, and cultural influence, particularly in the Boston area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.