Fearrington family
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The Fearrington family is a local North Carolina family whose name and legacy are closely associated with the development and identity of Fearrington Village.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fearrington family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4013849 — 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: Fearrington family Context triple: [Fearrington Village, North Carolina, namedAfter, Fearrington family]
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A.
Beaufort family
The Beaufort family was a powerful English noble lineage descended from John of Gaunt whose legitimized status and Lancastrian bloodline provided a key dynastic claim later used by Henry VII.
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B.
Drayton family
The Drayton family was a prominent colonial-era planter and political dynasty in South Carolina, closely associated with major plantations such as Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation along the Ashley and Cooper Rivers.
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C.
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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D.
Royall family
The Royall family was a wealthy colonial New England dynasty whose fortune, built in part on slavery and Caribbean plantations, is historically linked to early American institutions such as Harvard Law School.
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E.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a central, long-running fictional clan on the American soap opera "Guiding Light," known for its influential role in the show's major storylines and interfamily dramas.
- 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: Fearrington family Target entity description: The Fearrington family is a local North Carolina family whose name and legacy are closely associated with the development and identity of Fearrington Village.
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A.
Beaufort family
The Beaufort family was a powerful English noble lineage descended from John of Gaunt whose legitimized status and Lancastrian bloodline provided a key dynastic claim later used by Henry VII.
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B.
Drayton family
The Drayton family was a prominent colonial-era planter and political dynasty in South Carolina, closely associated with major plantations such as Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation along the Ashley and Cooper Rivers.
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C.
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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D.
Royall family
The Royall family was a wealthy colonial New England dynasty whose fortune, built in part on slavery and Caribbean plantations, is historically linked to early American institutions such as Harvard Law School.
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E.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a central, long-running fictional clan on the American soap opera "Guiding Light," known for its influential role in the show's major storylines and interfamily dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development of Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| influenced | identity of Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| legacyAssociatedWith | Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| localTo | Chatham County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameUsedIn | Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in development of Fearrington Village ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Fearrington family Description of subject: The Fearrington family is a local North Carolina family whose name and legacy are closely associated with the development and identity of Fearrington Village.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.