Hodgkin family
E384942
The Hodgkin family is a notable British Quaker family historically prominent in science, medicine, and public life, including figures such as Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hodgkin family canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3736549 — 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: Hodgkin family Context triple: [Toby Hodgkin, memberOf, Hodgkin family]
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A.
Harper family
The Harper family is a prominent American publishing dynasty best known for establishing the influential publishing house that evolved into HarperCollins.
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B.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
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C.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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D.
Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hodgkin family Target entity description: The Hodgkin family is a notable British Quaker family historically prominent in science, medicine, and public life, including figures such as Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin.
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A.
Harper family
The Harper family is a prominent American publishing dynasty best known for establishing the influential publishing house that evolved into HarperCollins.
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B.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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C.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
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D.
Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British family
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Quaker family ⓘ family ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| family | Hodgkin family self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
medical research
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natural sciences ⓘ public service ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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crystallography ⓘ medicine ⓘ neurophysiology ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alan Hodgkin
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surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin ⓘ John Hodgkin ⓘ Lancelot Hodgkin ⓘ Thomas Hodgkin ⓘ |
| hasNotableActivity |
Quaker social reform
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philanthropy ⓘ support for education ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Hodgkin–Huxley model
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description of Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ medicine ⓘ public life ⓘ science ⓘ |
| notableWork | X-ray crystallography of biomolecules ⓘ |
| occupation |
barrister
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chemist ⓘ physician ⓘ physiologist ⓘ |
| religion |
Religious Society of Friends
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surface form:
Quakerism
Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| socialClass | professional middle class ⓘ |
| studied |
ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes
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structure of insulin ⓘ structure of penicillin ⓘ structure of vitamin B12 ⓘ |
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: Hodgkin family Description of subject: The Hodgkin family is a notable British Quaker family historically prominent in science, medicine, and public life, including figures such as Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dorothy Hodgkin