General Sherman Tree
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The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia in California renowned as the largest tree in the world by volume and a major natural landmark.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| General Sherman Tree canonical | 9 |
| General Sherman Tree viewpoint | 1 |
| contains General Sherman, the largest known tree by volume | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22279 — 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: General Sherman Tree Context triple: [Sequoia National Park, knownFor, General Sherman Tree]
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giant sequoia
The giant sequoia is an enormous, long-lived coniferous tree species native to California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for being among the largest and most massive trees on Earth.
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B.
California redwood
The California redwood is a towering, long-lived coniferous tree native to the coastal and mountainous regions of California, renowned for being among the tallest and largest trees on Earth.
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C.
American elm
The American elm is a large, deciduous North American tree species historically prized for its vase-shaped form and use as a prominent shade and street tree.
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D.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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E.
Douglas fir
Douglas fir is a large, long-lived conifer native to western North America, valued for its strong timber and ecological importance in mountain and coastal forests.
- 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: General Sherman Tree Target entity description: The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia in California renowned as the largest tree in the world by volume and a major natural landmark.
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A.
giant sequoia
The giant sequoia is an enormous, long-lived coniferous tree species native to California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for being among the largest and most massive trees on Earth.
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B.
California redwood
The California redwood is a towering, long-lived coniferous tree native to the coastal and mountainous regions of California, renowned for being among the tallest and largest trees on Earth.
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C.
American elm
The American elm is a large, deciduous North American tree species historically prized for its vase-shaped form and use as a prominent shade and street tree.
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D.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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E.
Douglas fir
Douglas fir is a large, long-lived conifer native to western North America, valued for its strong timber and ecological importance in mountain and coastal forests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
giant sequoia
ⓘ
individual tree ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| barkColor | reddish-brown ⓘ |
| baseCircumference |
about 102.6 feet
ⓘ
about 31.3 meters ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| diameterAtBase |
about 11 meters
ⓘ
about 36 feet ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 2,050 meters above sea level
ⓘ
about 6,730 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| estimatedAge |
approximately 2,200 years
ⓘ
between 2,000 and 2,700 years ⓘ |
| fireAdapted | true ⓘ |
| growthForm | single trunk ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | protected within national park ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | National Park Service natural landmark ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility | parking area for visitors ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
largest known living single-stem tree
ⓘ
largest tree in the world by volume ⓘ |
| hasTrailAccess | General Sherman Tree Trail ⓘ |
| hasViewingArea | designated viewing platform ⓘ |
| height |
about 275 feet
ⓘ
about 83.8 meters ⓘ |
| isLiving | true ⓘ |
| isMajorAttractionFor | Sequoia National Park visitors ⓘ |
| isMonumentalTree | true ⓘ |
| isNamedTree | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest ecosystem ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen scale-like leaves ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Giant Forest ⓘ Sequoia National Park ⓘ Tulare County, California ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| managementAuthority |
National Park Service
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Park Service
|
| namedAfter | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exceptional trunk volume
ⓘ
longevity ⓘ tourism significance ⓘ |
| parkSection | Giant Forest sequoia grove ⓘ |
| protectedArea | Sequoia National Park ⓘ |
| region | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| taxon |
giant sequoia
ⓘ
surface form:
Sequoiadendron giganteum
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| treeType | conifer ⓘ |
| trunkVolume |
about 1,487 cubic meters
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about 52,500 cubic feet ⓘ |
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: General Sherman Tree Description of subject: The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia in California renowned as the largest tree in the world by volume and a major natural landmark.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
General Sherman Tree viewpoint
this entity surface form:
contains General Sherman, the largest known tree by volume