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
Sedgwick family
Ochs-Sulzberger family
Dolan family (American business family)
Skakel
surface form: Skakel family
Skakel family
Nicklin family
Chew family
Melvin family New England family
Mather family New England family
Daniel Boone family American frontier family
Pritzker
Green family
New York Giants ownership family (Mara family)
surface form: Mara family
Sherman family
Lerner family
Sterling family
Cabot family
Peck family
Peltz family
Elkins family
Howe family of Ipswich and Topsfield New England colonial family
Elkins
surface form: Elkins family
Lindner family
Harriman family
Tisch family
Kennedy
surface form: Kennedy family
Howland family
Belfer family
Jones family
Durst family
Whitney family
Harkness family
Congdon family
The Foy Family
Grainger family
Goodman family Chicago family
Fonda family
Hepburn family
Belmont
surface form: Belmont family
Wayne family of Pennsylvania
Allerton family New England colonial family
Dulles family
Witherspoon family
Marshall family
Zemurray family
Annenberg family
Morton family
Sandler family
Shriver family
Stabler family