Swinton family
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The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scottish noble lineage historically associated with the Scottish Borders and known in modern times through actress Tilda Swinton.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swinton family canonical | 2 |
| Campbell-Swinton family | 1 |
| Swinton (surname) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3374680 — 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: Swinton family Context triple: [Tilda Swinton, memberOf, Swinton family]
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A.
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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B.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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C.
Talbot family
The Talbot family is a historically prominent lineage whose influence and legacy in colonial-era Maryland led to places such as Talbot County being named in their honor.
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D.
Gordon family
The Gordon family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically headed by the Marquess of Huntly and influential in the politics and society of northeast Scotland.
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E.
Jenkinson family
The Jenkinson family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the early 19th century.
- 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: Swinton family Target entity description: The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scottish noble lineage historically associated with the Scottish Borders and known in modern times through actress Tilda Swinton.
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A.
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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B.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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C.
Talbot family
The Talbot family is a historically prominent lineage whose influence and legacy in colonial-era Maryland led to places such as Talbot County being named in their honor.
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D.
Gordon family
The Gordon family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically headed by the Marquess of Huntly and influential in the politics and society of northeast Scotland.
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E.
Jenkinson family
The Jenkinson family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Swinton family Description of subject: The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scottish noble lineage historically associated with the Scottish Borders and known in modern times through actress Tilda Swinton.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Campbell-Swinton family
this entity surface form:
Swinton (surname)