Bingham family
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The Bingham family is a prominent American family historically known for its wealth, social standing, and influence, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bingham family canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431385 — 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: Bingham family Context triple: [Bingham-Waggoner Estate, namedAfter, Bingham family]
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A.
Buckman family
The Buckman family was a prominent colonial-era New England family associated with the historic Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts, a key site at the start of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Mills family
The Mills family was a prominent and wealthy American family of the Gilded Age, known for their influence in finance and society and for commissioning grand estates in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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C.
Bigelow family
The Bigelow family is a prominent family whose legacy and contributions were significant enough to have the Bigelow Chapel named in their honor.
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D.
Noland family
The Noland family is a historically significant family closely linked to the heritage and legacy represented by the Noland Home.
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E.
Nichols family
The Nichols family is a prominent Chicago philanthropic family known for their significant contributions to the city’s cultural and educational institutions.
- 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: Bingham family Target entity description: The Bingham family is a prominent American family historically known for its wealth, social standing, and influence, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Buckman family
The Buckman family was a prominent colonial-era New England family associated with the historic Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts, a key site at the start of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Mills family
The Mills family was a prominent and wealthy American family of the Gilded Age, known for their influence in finance and society and for commissioning grand estates in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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C.
Bigelow family
The Bigelow family is a prominent family whose legacy and contributions were significant enough to have the Bigelow Chapel named in their honor.
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D.
Noland family
The Noland family is a historically significant family closely linked to the heritage and legacy represented by the Noland Home.
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E.
Nichols family
The Nichols family is a prominent Chicago philanthropic family known for their significant contributions to the city’s cultural and educational institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
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person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
19th century
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New England elite ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| family |
Bingham family
self-linksurface differs
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Bingham family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bingham family self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bingham family self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
exploration
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philanthropy ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Hiram Bingham I
ⓘ
Hiram Bingham ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Bingham Jr.
Mary Bingham ⓘ |
| historicalRelevance |
19th-century United States society
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early 20th-century United States society ⓘ |
| knownFor |
missionary work in Hawaii
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publicizing Machu Picchu ⓘ |
| notableFor |
political influence
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social standing ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
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missionary ⓘ missionary ⓘ politician ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Senator from Connecticut ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| socialStatus | prominent ⓘ |
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: Bingham family Description of subject: The Bingham family is a prominent American family historically known for its wealth, social standing, and influence, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
subject surface form:
Hiram Bingham Jr.
subject surface form:
Hiram Bingham I
subject surface form:
Mary Bingham