FamilySearch
E510063
FamilySearch is a major nonprofit genealogy organization and online database that provides free access to billions of historical records to help people research and build their family trees.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FamilySearch canonical | 1 |
| FamilySearch Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5296783 — 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: FamilySearch Context triple: [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, operates, FamilySearch]
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A.
FamilyTreeDNA
FamilyTreeDNA is a genetic testing company that offers DNA analysis services for ancestry, genealogy, and family history research.
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B.
Family Tree
Family Tree is a renowned performance art piece by Chinese artist Zhang Huan in which his face is progressively covered with calligraphic text, exploring themes of identity, memory, and cultural heritage.
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C.
Family History
"Family History" is a conceptual artwork by British artist Gillian Wearing that explores themes of identity, memory, and personal narrative through the lens of familial relationships.
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D.
MyHeritage DNA
MyHeritage DNA is a consumer genetic testing service that provides ancestry analysis and DNA matching, integrated with MyHeritage’s online genealogy and family tree platform.
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E.
AncestryDNA
AncestryDNA is a consumer genetic testing service that analyzes DNA for ancestry composition, ethnicity estimates, and family connections, operated by genealogy company Ancestry.
- 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: FamilySearch Target entity description: FamilySearch is a major nonprofit genealogy organization and online database that provides free access to billions of historical records to help people research and build their family trees.
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A.
FamilyTreeDNA
FamilyTreeDNA is a genetic testing company that offers DNA analysis services for ancestry, genealogy, and family history research.
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B.
Family Tree
Family Tree is a renowned performance art piece by Chinese artist Zhang Huan in which his face is progressively covered with calligraphic text, exploring themes of identity, memory, and cultural heritage.
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C.
Family History
"Family History" is a conceptual artwork by British artist Gillian Wearing that explores themes of identity, memory, and personal narrative through the lens of familial relationships.
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D.
MyHeritage DNA
MyHeritage DNA is a consumer genetic testing service that provides ancestry analysis and DNA matching, integrated with MyHeritage’s online genealogy and family tree platform.
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E.
AncestryDNA
AncestryDNA is a consumer genetic testing service that analyzes DNA for ancestry composition, ethnicity estimates, and family connections, operated by genealogy company Ancestry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family history website
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genealogy organization ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ online genealogy database ⓘ |
| businessModel | nonprofit ⓘ |
| cost | free access to records ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataAccessModel |
digitized microfilm collections
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partnered archival data ⓘ user-contributed data ⓘ |
| formerName | Genealogical Society of Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
birth records
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census records ⓘ church records ⓘ city directories ⓘ death records ⓘ family histories and genealogies ⓘ immigration and naturalization records ⓘ international records from many countries ⓘ land and property records ⓘ marriage records ⓘ military records ⓘ probate records ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
access to FamilySearch Centers
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access to FamilySearch Libraries ⓘ collaborative tree editing ⓘ consultations with research specialists ⓘ digital images of original documents ⓘ indexed records ⓘ memories and photos uploads ⓘ messaging between users ⓘ mobile apps ⓘ online family trees ⓘ online indexing platform ⓘ oral histories and stories ⓘ record hints ⓘ research wiki ⓘ searchable historical records ⓘ |
| hasIdentifier | Wikidata: Q54237 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUserRegistration | optional but required for some features ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1894 ⓘ |
| language |
Chinese
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English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ additional languages ⓘ |
| mission | to help people discover and connect with their family history ⓘ |
| offers |
in-person help at FamilySearch Centers
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online genealogical education ⓘ research guides ⓘ webinars ⓘ |
| operatedBy | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requiresPayment | no subscription fee for core services ⓘ |
| serviceType |
family tree building
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genealogical research ⓘ historical records access ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
crowdsourced indexing
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optical character recognition ⓘ |
| website | https://www.familysearch.org ⓘ |
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: FamilySearch Description of subject: FamilySearch is a major nonprofit genealogy organization and online database that provides free access to billions of historical records to help people research and build their family trees.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FamilySearch Library