James S. Sherman
E132814
James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James S. Sherman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926205 — 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: James S. Sherman Context triple: [William Howard Taft, vicePresident, James S. Sherman]
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A.
James Clark McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
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B.
Benjamin C. Howard
Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
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C.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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D.
William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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E.
William C. Foster
William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
- 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: James S. Sherman Target entity description: James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
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A.
James Clark McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
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B.
Benjamin C. Howard
Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
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C.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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D.
William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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E.
William C. Foster
William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: James S. Sherman Description of subject: James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Howard Taft