Stevenson family of Illinois
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The Stevenson family of Illinois is a prominent American political dynasty known for producing multiple influential public officials, including U.S. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I and several generations of Illinois statesmen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stevenson family of Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7440177 — 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: Stevenson family of Illinois Context triple: [Adlai E. Stevenson IV, notableFamily, Stevenson family of Illinois]
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A.
Stevens family
The Stevens family is a prominent fictional clan in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often associated with the lawyer Gavin Stevens and themes of Southern honor and moral complexity.
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B.
Stevens family
The Stevens family is a prominent American engineering and entrepreneurial dynasty whose wealth and influence in 19th-century transportation and industry led to the endowment of Stevens Institute of Technology.
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C.
Delano family
The Delano family is a prominent American lineage known for its wealth, influence in New England society, and as the maternal family of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Stoddard family
The Stoddard family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influential role in early American religious, intellectual, and social life.
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E.
Blatch–Stanton family
The Blatch–Stanton family is a prominent American suffrage and reformist lineage best known for figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her descendants, who played key roles in the women’s rights movement.
- 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: Stevenson family of Illinois Target entity description: The Stevenson family of Illinois is a prominent American political dynasty known for producing multiple influential public officials, including U.S. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I and several generations of Illinois statesmen.
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A.
Stevens family
The Stevens family is a prominent fictional clan in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often associated with the lawyer Gavin Stevens and themes of Southern honor and moral complexity.
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B.
Stevens family
The Stevens family is a prominent American engineering and entrepreneurial dynasty whose wealth and influence in 19th-century transportation and industry led to the endowment of Stevens Institute of Technology.
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C.
Delano family
The Delano family is a prominent American lineage known for its wealth, influence in New England society, and as the maternal family of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Stoddard family
The Stoddard family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influential role in early American religious, intellectual, and social life.
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E.
Blatch–Stanton family
The Blatch–Stanton family is a prominent American suffrage and reformist lineage best known for figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her descendants, who played key roles in the women’s rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American political family
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| birthYear |
1835
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1868 ⓘ 1900 ⓘ 1930 ⓘ |
| candidateForOffice | President of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathYear |
1914
ⓘ
1929 ⓘ 1965 ⓘ 2021 ⓘ |
| endTime (vice presidency) | 1897 ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Adlai E. Stevenson II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Adlai E. Stevenson III NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis G. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | Stevenson political dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Stevenson family of Illinois
NERFINISHED
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Stevenson family of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevenson family of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevenson family of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing multiple influential public officials ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Adlai E. Stevenson I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Adlai E. Stevenson II NERFINISHED ⓘ Adlai E. Stevenson III NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis G. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
politician ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeHeldByMembers |
Governor of Illinois
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Illinois Secretary of State NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senator from Illinois ⓘ Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
Democratic Party ⓘ Democratic Party ⓘ Democratic Party ⓘ |
| politicalPartyTradition | Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Illinois
ⓘ
Illinois Secretary of State NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Ambassador to the United Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Senator from Illinois ⓘ Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| presidentialElectionCampaign |
1952 United States presidential election
NERFINISHED
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1956 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | President Grover Cleveland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime (vice presidency) | 1893 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| vicePresidentOf | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Stevenson family of Illinois Description of subject: The Stevenson family of Illinois is a prominent American political dynasty known for producing multiple influential public officials, including U.S. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I and several generations of Illinois statesmen.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.