Charles Robert Sherman
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Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Robert Sherman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T393878 — 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: Charles Robert Sherman Context triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, father, Charles Robert Sherman]
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A.
Emile Sherman
Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
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B.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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C.
Edward David Burt
Edward David Burt is a Bermudian politician who has served as the Premier of Bermuda and leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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D.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
Andrew Arthur Allen
Andrew Arthur Allen is the son of acclaimed American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
- 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: Charles Robert Sherman Target entity description: Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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A.
Emile Sherman
Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
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B.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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C.
Edward David Burt
Edward David Burt is a Bermudian politician who has served as the Premier of Bermuda and leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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D.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
Andrew Arthur Allen
Andrew Arthur Allen is the son of acclaimed American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child |
Charles Taylor Sherman
ⓘ
John Sherman ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName |
Charles
ⓘ
Robert ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Charles Taylor Sherman
ⓘ
John Sherman ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Supreme Court of Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
Ohio Supreme Court
|
| name | Charles Robert Sherman self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of William Tecumseh Sherman
ⓘ
service as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Ohio ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Supreme Court of Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
|
| spouse | Mary Hoyt Sherman ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ohio ⓘ |
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: Charles Robert Sherman Description of subject: Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Tecumseh Sherman