Holmes family
E458340
The Holmes family is a notable New England lineage best known for producing prominent American figures such as the poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holmes family canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4594697 — 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: Holmes family Context triple: [Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, partOf, Holmes family]
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A.
Stephen family
The Stephen family was a prominent British intellectual and literary family of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and including figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
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B.
Dudley family
The Dudley family is a prominent English noble lineage historically influential in Tudor politics and court affairs.
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C.
Hall family
The Hall family is a familial group or lineage to which Sylvia Hall belongs.
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D.
Hopkins family
The Hopkins family is a lineage or household associated with individuals bearing the Hopkins surname, including John Hopkins.
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E.
Sedgwick family
The Sedgwick family is a prominent American family known for its long-standing social, cultural, and artistic influence, including notable figures in literature, law, and the arts.
- 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: Holmes family Target entity description: The Holmes family is a notable New England lineage best known for producing prominent American figures such as the poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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A.
Stephen family
The Stephen family was a prominent British intellectual and literary family of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and including figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
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B.
Dudley family
The Dudley family is a prominent English noble lineage historically influential in Tudor politics and court affairs.
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C.
Hall family
The Hall family is a familial group or lineage to which Sylvia Hall belongs.
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D.
Hopkins family
The Hopkins family is a lineage or household associated with individuals bearing the Hopkins surname, including John Hopkins.
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E.
Sedgwick family
The Sedgwick family is a prominent American family known for its long-standing social, cultural, and artistic influence, including notable figures in literature, law, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
New England family ⓘ family ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Boston
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicOrigin | English-American ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
law
ⓘ
literature ⓘ medicine ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasLineage | New England Brahmin ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Abiel Holmes
ⓘ
Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Amelia Lee Jackson
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ⓘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ |
| hasNotableOccupationAmongMembers |
Supreme Court Justice
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ historian ⓘ jurist ⓘ physician ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
ⓘ
producing Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
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: Holmes family Description of subject: The Holmes family is a notable New England lineage best known for producing prominent American figures such as the poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.