Austin Sherman
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Austin Sherman is known as one of the children of American actress Sela Ward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Austin Sherman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3544949 — 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: Austin Sherman Context triple: [Sela Ward, hasChild, Austin Sherman]
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A.
Christian Shank
Christian Shank was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, was named.
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B.
Sherman Douglas
Sherman Douglas is a former American point guard best known for his standout college career at Syracuse University and subsequent decade-long tenure in the NBA.
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C.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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D.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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E.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
- 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: Austin Sherman Target entity description: Austin Sherman is known as one of the children of American actress Sela Ward.
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A.
Christian Shank
Christian Shank was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, was named.
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B.
Sherman Douglas
Sherman Douglas is a former American point guard best known for his standout college career at Syracuse University and subsequent decade-long tenure in the NBA.
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C.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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D.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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E.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| childOf | Sela Ward ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild | Austin Sherman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Sela Ward ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
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: Austin Sherman Description of subject: Austin Sherman is known as one of the children of American actress Sela Ward.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sela Ward