Clutter family
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The Clutter family was a Kansas farm family whose 1959 murders became infamous through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clutter family canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544911 — 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: Clutter family Context triple: [Clutter family murders, victimFamily, Clutter family]
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A.
Blunt family
The Blunt family is a British family best known for its members’ prominence in the arts and public life, including actors, writers, and other cultural figures.
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B.
Sen family
The Sen family is the hereditary lineage of Japanese tea masters descended from Sen no Rikyū, central to the development and transmission of the Japanese tea ceremony.
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C.
Tisch family
The Tisch family is a prominent American business dynasty best known for its leadership of the Loews Corporation and major philanthropic contributions to education, the arts, and public service.
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D.
North family
The North family is a prominent English aristocratic lineage that produced several notable statesmen and peers, particularly influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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E.
Bright family
The Bright family is a prominent benefactor family associated with Harvard University, recognized for their significant philanthropic contributions that led to the naming of the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
- 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: Clutter family Target entity description: The Clutter family was a Kansas farm family whose 1959 murders became infamous through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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A.
Blunt family
The Blunt family is a British family best known for its members’ prominence in the arts and public life, including actors, writers, and other cultural figures.
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B.
Sen family
The Sen family is the hereditary lineage of Japanese tea masters descended from Sen no Rikyū, central to the development and transmission of the Japanese tea ceremony.
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C.
Tisch family
The Tisch family is a prominent American business dynasty best known for its leadership of the Loews Corporation and major philanthropic contributions to education, the arts, and public service.
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D.
North family
The North family is a prominent English aristocratic lineage that produced several notable statesmen and peers, particularly influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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E.
Bright family
The Bright family is a prominent benefactor family associated with Harvard University, recognized for their significant philanthropic contributions that led to the naming of the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Finney County, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garden City, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfDeath | 1959-11-15 ⓘ |
| describedBy | Truman Capote NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentedIn | court records of Kansas v. Hickock and Smith ⓘ |
| economicStatus | prosperous farmers ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Clutter family home, Holcomb, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAddress | River Valley Farm, near Holcomb, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreOfAccount | true crime ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
cultural symbol of rural American crime
ⓘ
influence on journalism ⓘ influence on true-crime literature ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMurderVictims | 4 ⓘ |
| headOfFamily | Herbert Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Capote (2005 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ In Cold Blood (1967 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Infamous (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Perry Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Hickock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | murder ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
international news
ⓘ
national U.S. news ⓘ |
| member |
Bonnie Clutter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herbert Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyon Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Clutter family murders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1959 family murder case ⓘ |
| occupation | wheat farmers ⓘ |
| partOf | rural Kansas farming community ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Valley View Cemetery, Garden City, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Holcomb, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | middle class ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic studies on crime and media
ⓘ
numerous documentaries ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| victimOf |
armed robbery
ⓘ
home invasion ⓘ multiple homicide ⓘ |
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: Clutter family Description of subject: The Clutter family was a Kansas farm family whose 1959 murders became infamous through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.