Ladd family
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The Ladd family was a prominent New England mercantile and political family associated with the historic Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ladd family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6192248 — 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: Ladd family Context triple: [Moffatt-Ladd House, namedAfter, Ladd family]
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A.
Lindsay family
The Lindsay family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically associated with the Earls of Crawford and Glenesk.
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B.
Luth family
The Luth family is a philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to Holy Cross athletics, including the major donation that funded the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex.
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C.
Liddell family
The Liddell family is a British noble lineage historically associated with the peerage and landed gentry.
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D.
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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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: Ladd family Target entity description: The Ladd family was a prominent New England mercantile and political family associated with the historic Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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A.
Lindsay family
The Lindsay family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically associated with the Earls of Crawford and Glenesk.
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B.
Luth family
The Luth family is a philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to Holy Cross athletics, including the major donation that funded the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex.
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C.
Liddell family
The Liddell family is a British noble lineage historically associated with the peerage and landed gentry.
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D.
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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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 (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New England mercantile family
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family ⓘ political family ⓘ |
| associatedWithBuilding | Moffatt-Ladd House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Piscataqua River trade
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Portsmouth waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Portsmouth, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| hasHistoricResidence | Moffatt-Ladd House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alexander H. Ladd
NERFINISHED
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Henry Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ William Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Moffatt-Ladd House
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mercantile activities in New England ⓘ political influence in New Hampshire ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockingham County, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Hampshire political elite
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Portsmouth mercantile elite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInLocalHistory |
development of Portsmouth commerce
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participation in New Hampshire politics ⓘ |
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: Ladd family Description of subject: The Ladd family was a prominent New England mercantile and political family associated with the historic Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.