American family

C1654
concept

An American family is a socially recognized group of individuals, typically connected by blood, marriage, adoption, or long-term cohabitation, who share a household or close emotional bonds within the cultural context of the United States.

All labels observed (19)

Label Occurrences
American family canonical 493
New England family 31
colonial American family 20

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American family
Generated description
An American family is a socially recognized group of individuals, typically connected by blood, marriage, adoption, or long-term cohabitation, who share a household or close emotional bonds within the cultural context of the United States.

Instances (583)

Instance Via concept surface
Carnegie Hall chairman Sanford I. Weill’s wife’s family (Zankel family)
surface form: Zankel family
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Greenleaf family New England family
Day family —
Alger family —
Fenno family —
Dolan family —
Folger family of Nantucket New England family
Ryerson family —
Ryerson family of Chicago —
Moore–Freundlich family —
Bustill family African American family
Loomis family New England family
Coolidge family —
Rush family —
Hazard family —
Stayner family —
Scribner family —
Bloomingdale family —
Fischell family —
Gilman family New England family
Hager family —
Ziff family —
McMahon family —
Holt family —
Giuliani family —
Zellerbach family —
Wetherill family —
Dodge family —
Larry Dolan family —
Todd family —
Hunt family —
Getty family —
Delano family —
Howard family —
Browder family —
Packard family —
Spanos family —
Booth family —
Zuckerberg family —
Riker family of New York American colonial family
Minnelli
surface form: Minnelli family
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Kraft family —
Langdon family —
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
surface form: Surratt family
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Morgan
surface form: Morgan family
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Durant family —
Cohen family —
Wallace family —
Muhlenberg
surface form: Muhlenberg family
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Alexander family of Virginia colonial American family