Alden family
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The Alden family is a prominent early American colonial family descended from Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alden family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8875889 — 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: Alden family Context triple: [Priscilla Mullins, notableFamily, Alden family]
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A.
Aldrich family
The Aldrich family is a prominent American political and business dynasty known for its influence in finance, industry, and public service across multiple generations.
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B.
Apthorp family
The Apthorp family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influence in colonial American commerce, politics, and society.
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C.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
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D.
Winslow family
The Winslow family is the central household in the play and film "The Winslow Boy," around whom the story of a young son's alleged wrongdoing and the ensuing legal battle unfolds.
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E.
Downey family
The Downey family is a prominent Hollywood family best known for actor Robert Downey Jr. and his relatives’ long-standing involvement in the film industry.
- 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: Alden family Target entity description: The Alden family is a prominent early American colonial family descended from Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
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A.
Aldrich family
The Aldrich family is a prominent American political and business dynasty known for its influence in finance, industry, and public service across multiple generations.
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B.
Apthorp family
The Apthorp family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influence in colonial American commerce, politics, and society.
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C.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
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D.
Winslow family
The Winslow family is the central household in the play and film "The Winslow Boy," around whom the story of a young son's alleged wrongdoing and the ensuing legal battle unfolds.
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E.
Downey family
The Downey family is a prominent Hollywood family best known for actor Robert Downey Jr. and his relatives’ long-standing involvement in the film industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American colonial family ⓘ |
| associatedHistoricSite | Alden House Historic Site GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation |
Duxbury, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plymouth, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Mayflower voyage ⓘ |
| associatedWithShip | Mayflower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfOrigin | Europe ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Mayflower descendants organizations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| descendedFrom |
John Alden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Priscilla Mullins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| earliestKnownGenerationCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| earliestSettlementRegion |
Massachusetts Bay region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasFamilyAssociation | Alden Kindred of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLineageDocumentedIn |
Mayflower passenger genealogies
ⓘ
New England genealogical records ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
John Alden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Priscilla Mullins NERFINISHED ⓘ their colonial-era descendants ⓘ |
| hasProgenitor |
John Alden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Priscilla Mullins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
Mayflower descendants
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early New England settlement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being descendants of Mayflower passengers
ⓘ
prominence in early American colonial history ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| migrationPattern | England to New England ⓘ |
| notableAncestor |
John Alden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Priscilla Mullins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Mayflower descendant families NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | English Puritan ⓘ |
| surname | Alden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfOrigin | early 17th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alden family Description of subject: The Alden family is a prominent early American colonial family descended from Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.