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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Except that the Capulets and the Montagues weren't unconnected small groups. They were both noble families of the city of Verona. So you give him a reputation with "noble families of Verona".
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Or the group could just be "Capulets and Montagues", with all the other nobles of Verona indifferent to or even ignorant of the reputation-holder.
Group sizes are relative and approximate, and the comparison is non-transitive. It's perfectly possible for "Capulets" to be a small group, "Verona nobles" to be a medium group, and "C+M" to nevertheless still to be a small group, even though it's bigger than another known small group and smaller than a known medium group. Or the GM could rule that C+M is a medium group. Either way is legal. The most-for-my-points players will certainly demand "all Verona nobles" for their positive rep to get as much as they can cram into the medium group they paid for.
But just on its own, the concept tells you what the group actually contains, while the size is a secondary concern, a derivative judgement call, not the primary meaning of the group's membership.