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
Hamner family
Bingham family
Beverley family of Virginia colonial American family
Payne
surface form: Whitney family
Pynchon family of New England colonial American family
Morgan family
Barrett family New England family
Stevens family
Cantey family
Cantey family of South Carolina
Dickinson family
Gould family
Dossin family
Smith family
France family
Pierpont family
Kauffman family
Blocker family
Duke
surface form: Duke family
Moffatt family New England family
Heinz family
Barrymore
surface form: Barrymore family
Munson family
Williams family
Volgenau family
Marie Byrd
surface form: Byrd family
the Hilton family
surface form: Hilton family
Spreckels
Kelly family of Philadelphia
Parris family New England family
Colgate family
Knott family
Minnelli family
Goelet
Calder family
Achenbach family
Page family of Virginia
Moody family
Lloyd family (entertainment)
Skaggs family
Carano family
Allan family 19th-century American family
Gansevoort family New York family
Ayer family
Mellon family
Allgood family
Smith family
Hannibal Hamlin family
Folger coffee family
Decatur family