Schoolcraft
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Schoolcraft is the middle name of James S. Sherman, the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schoolcraft canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5968622 — 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: Schoolcraft Context triple: [James S. Sherman, middleName, Schoolcraft]
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A.
Shattuck
Shattuck is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its historic windmill park and rural, agricultural character.
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B.
Conant
Conant is a surname most notably associated with James B. Conant, an influential American chemist, educator, and former president of Harvard University.
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C.
Sanderson Academy
Sanderson Academy was a local school in Buckland, Massachusetts, known for educating Mary Lyon before she founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and became a pioneer in women’s higher education.
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D.
Kogod
Kogod is the business school of American University in Washington, D.C., offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management.
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E.
Kateri School
Kateri School is an educational institution serving the community of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk territory near Montreal, Canada.
- 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: Schoolcraft Target entity description: Schoolcraft is the middle name of James S. Sherman, the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft.
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A.
Shattuck
Shattuck is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its historic windmill park and rural, agricultural character.
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B.
Conant
Conant is a surname most notably associated with James B. Conant, an influential American chemist, educator, and former president of Harvard University.
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C.
Sanderson Academy
Sanderson Academy was a local school in Buckland, Massachusetts, known for educating Mary Lyon before she founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and became a pioneer in women’s higher education.
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D.
Kogod
Kogod is the business school of American University in Washington, D.C., offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management.
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E.
Kateri School
Kateri School is an educational institution serving the community of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk territory near Montreal, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vice President of the United States
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Hamilton College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1855-10-24 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Utica, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buriedAt | Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1912-10-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Utica, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hamilton College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Schoolcraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Sunny Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 27th Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| precededBy | Charles W. Fairbanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| profession | lawyer ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| servedUnder | William Howard Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Carrie Babcock Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Thomas R. Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vicePresidentOf | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Schoolcraft Description of subject: Schoolcraft is the middle name of James S. Sherman, the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.