Here's the thing. You said a "Hot dog is a sandwich."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a gastronomist who studies sandwiches, I am telling you, specifically, in gastronomy, no one calls hot dogs sandwiches. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "sandwich family" you're referring to the gastronomic grouping of Bread, which includes things from hoagies to burgers to baguettes.
So your reasoning for calling a hot dog a sandwich is because random people "call the bunned ones sandwiches?" Let's get beef wellington and dumplings in there, then, too.
You said a hot dog is a sandwich, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the sandwich family sandwichs, which means you'd call bagels, tacos and other bread dishes sandwiches, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, okay?

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