familyName

P18
predicate

Indicates that one entity is the family (last) name associated with another entity (typically a person).

All labels observed (72)

Label Occurrences
familyName canonical 99,248
hasFamilyName 5,311
hasSurname 3,513

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: familyName
Generated description
Indicates that one entity is the family (last) name associated with another entity (typically a person).

Sample triples (109,779)

Subject Object
Susannah Darwin Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson self-linksurface differs
surface form: Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow self-linksurface differs
surface form: Longfellow
Carl Friedrich Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gauss
Emmy Noether Emmy Noether self-linksurface differs
surface form: Noether
Anwar Sadat Anwar Sadat self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sadat
Amr Moussa Amr
surface form: Moussa
Andries van Dam van Dam
Robert Cailliau Cailliau
Mitchell Kapor Kapor
Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow self-linksurface differs
surface form: Doctorow
John H. Conway Conway
John Sutter Sutter
Roy Urquhart Urquhart
Francis Bacon Bacon
Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rushdie
Henry Armstrong Jackson
William Armstrong
surface form: William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
Armstrong via predicate surface "hasFamilyName"
Louis Agassiz Louis Agassiz self-linksurface differs
surface form: Agassiz
Winslow Homer Homer
Nathaniel Bowditch Nathaniel Bowditch self-linksurface differs
surface form: Bowditch
Adam Smith Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wollstonecraft
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muhammad Ali Jinnah self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jinnah
Mario Savio Savio
Bettina Aptheker Aptheker
Le Duc Tho Le
Xuan Thuy Xuan
Nguyen Van Thieu (indirectly through South Vietnamese delegation)
surface form: Nguyen Van Thieu
Thieu
John W. Nordstrom Nordstrom
Enid Mary Blyton (née Enid Mary Pollock, pen name Mary Pollock, sometimes used surname Gay in early life)
surface form: Enid Mary Blyton
Blyton
Jane Addams Addams
William J. Brennan Jr. (by designation: not; remove if inaccurate)
surface form: William J. Brennan Jr.
Brennan
Jennifer Siebel Newsom Siebel
Jennifer Siebel Newsom Newsom
Angelo Tsakopoulos Angelo Tsakopoulos self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tsakopoulos
Paul Kurtz Kurtz
Peter Griffin Griffin
Norman Reedus Reedus
Norman Lear Lear
Norman Bethune Bethune
Azim Premji Premji
Patrice Motsepe Motsepe
Yo-Yo Ma Ma
Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai self-linksurface differs
surface form: Yousafzai
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Proudhon
John Pilger Pilger
Naomi Klein Klein
Cynthia Maung Maung
L’Enfant
surface form: Pierre Charles L’Enfant
L’Enfant self-linksurface differs