The Family
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The Family is a funk and R&B band formed by Prince in the mid-1980s, best known for originating the song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Family canonical | 26 |
| The Family (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010928 — 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: The Family Context triple: [Prince, associatedAct, The Family]
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A.
His Family
"His Family" is a 1917 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the struggles and changes within a New York City family in the early 20th century.
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B.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
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C.
Della famiglia
Della famiglia is a 15th-century treatise by Leon Battista Alberti that explores family life, ethics, and the management of household and wealth in Renaissance society.
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D.
What Makes a Family
"What Makes a Family" is a 2001 television drama film that explores the legal and emotional struggles of a lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- 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: The Family Target entity description: The Family is a funk and R&B band formed by Prince in the mid-1980s, best known for originating the song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
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A.
His Family
"His Family" is a 1917 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the struggles and changes within a New York City family in the early 20th century.
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B.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
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C.
Della famiglia
Della famiglia is a 15th-century treatise by Leon Battista Alberti that explores family life, ethics, and the management of household and wealth in Renaissance society.
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D.
What Makes a Family
"What Makes a Family" is a 2001 television drama film that explores the legal and emotional struggles of a lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: The Family Description of subject: The Family is a funk and R&B band formed by Prince in the mid-1980s, best known for originating the song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
minneapolis sound
subject linked to:
Prince – vocals, instruments, production
linked to: The Family