Storey family
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The Storey family is a historically notable Border Reiver clan from the Anglo-Scottish border region, known for its involvement in raiding and frontier conflicts between England and Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Storey family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11637349 — 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: Storey family Context triple: [Border Reivers, hasNotableFamily, Storey family]
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A.
Rowley family
The Rowley family is a fictional household featured in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, known primarily through the character of Nora Rowley.
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B.
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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C.
Crowther family
The Crowther family is a fictional Yorkshire mill-owning dynasty whose fortunes and conflicts are chronicled across generations in Thomas Armstrong’s novel "The Crowthers of Bankdam."
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D.
Potts family
The Potts family is the central household featured in the classic children's story and film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," around whom the main adventures revolve.
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E.
Harper family
The Harper family is a prominent American publishing dynasty best known for establishing the influential publishing house that evolved into HarperCollins.
- 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: Storey family Target entity description: The Storey family is a historically notable Border Reiver clan from the Anglo-Scottish border region, known for its involvement in raiding and frontier conflicts between England and Scotland.
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A.
Rowley family
The Rowley family is a fictional household featured in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, known primarily through the character of Nora Rowley.
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B.
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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C.
Crowther family
The Crowther family is a fictional Yorkshire mill-owning dynasty whose fortunes and conflicts are chronicled across generations in Thomas Armstrong’s novel "The Crowthers of Bankdam."
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D.
Potts family
The Potts family is the central household featured in the classic children's story and film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," around whom the main adventures revolve.
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E.
Harper family
The Harper family is a prominent American publishing dynasty best known for establishing the influential publishing house that evolved into HarperCollins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Border Reiver clan
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historical family ⓘ surname group ⓘ |
| activity |
cattle raiding
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cross-border raids ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
border lawlessness
ⓘ
feuding between clans ⓘ |
| conflictInvolvement | Anglo-Scottish border warfare ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of England
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Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Anglo-Scottish borderers ⓘ |
| geographicContext |
English–Scottish frontier
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linked to:
Anglo-Scottish border
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| historicalPeriod |
Early modern period
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linked to:
Early Modern period
Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | outlawed family in certain periods ⓘ |
| knownFor |
border reiving
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frontier conflicts ⓘ raiding activities ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| legacy | modern surname distribution in northern England and southern Scotland ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
loose allegiance to central authority
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strong kinship ties ⓘ |
| partOf | Border Reivers ⓘ |
| region | Anglo-Scottish border ⓘ |
| socialRole | martial clan ⓘ |
| surnameVariant |
Storey
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Storie ⓘ Storry ⓘ Story ⓘ |
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: Storey family Description of subject: The Storey family is a historically notable Border Reiver clan from the Anglo-Scottish border region, known for its involvement in raiding and frontier conflicts between England and Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.