noble family

C811
concept

A noble family is a socially and often legally recognized kinship group that holds hereditary titles, privileges, and status within a hierarchical society, typically associated with landownership, political influence, and longstanding lineage.

All labels observed (104)

Label Occurrences
noble family canonical 644
noble house 162
Italian noble 127

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: noble family
Generated description
A noble family is a socially and often legally recognized kinship group that holds hereditary titles, privileges, and status within a hierarchical society, typically associated with landownership, political influence, and longstanding lineage.

Instances (2,115)

Instance Via concept surface
Colepeper family English noble family
Overlander family
House of Pimentel
House of Silva
House of Haro
House of Medinaceli Spanish noble house
House of Frías Spanish noble house
Maria Christina of Habsburg member of the House of Habsburg
Wedel Jarlsberg family
Bruce family of Clackmannan Scottish noble family
House of Lerma Spanish noble house
House of Alba de Tormes noble house
William, Duke of Austria member of the House of Habsburg
House of Pardaillan de Gondrin French noble family
House of Osorio
van Almonde
Cecil family English aristocratic family
Cecil family of Burghley and Exeter English noble family
Red Douglases Scottish noble family
Vogüé family French noble family
Virginia planter class social class
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria member of the House of Habsburg
Palatinate-Kleeburg noble house
Eustace family aristocratic family
Ostermann-Tolstoy
Pierre Le Moyne
surface form: Le Moyne family of New France
Hume family Scottish noble family
Ludovisi family aristocratic house
House of Devereux English noble family
Mary North
surface form: North family
English noble family
Mortemart family French noble family
Mongol imperial family
House of Pico noble house
House of Goyon French noble family
Goyon de Matignon French noble family
Athenian aristocracy social class
Cornelia (through Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
surface form: Cornelia (gens)
patrician family
House of Leinster noble house
Hobart family English aristocratic family
Álvarez de Toledo Spanish noble family
Ostermann family Russian noble family
Manteuffel family
House of Contades French noble family
von Karajan family
Shimazu
surface form: Shimazu family
Japanese noble family
Donati family
Gonzaga family
Norwegian nobility social class
Lucy Louisa Fitzgerald
surface form: FitzGerald family
Portman family British aristocratic family