James Sherman
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James Sherman is a lyricist best known for writing the words to the jazz standard "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Sherman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7549371 — 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 Sherman Context triple: [Lover Man, lyricist, James Sherman]
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A.
Sherman Edwards
Sherman Edwards was an American songwriter and composer best known for creating the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "1776," later adapted into the film of the same name.
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B.
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
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C.
Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director active in the early 20th century, known for his sophisticated screen presence and for directing early sound films such as "She Done Him Wrong."
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D.
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
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E.
Bill Raisch
Bill Raisch was an American character actor and dancer best known for playing the one-armed man in the television series "The Fugitive."
- 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 Sherman Target entity description: James Sherman is a lyricist best known for writing the words to the jazz standard "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)."
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A.
Sherman Edwards
Sherman Edwards was an American songwriter and composer best known for creating the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "1776," later adapted into the film of the same name.
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B.
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
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C.
Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director active in the early 20th century, known for his sophisticated screen presence and for directing early sound films such as "She Done Him Wrong."
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D.
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
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E.
Bill Raisch
Bill Raisch was an American character actor and dancer best known for playing the one-armed man in the television series "The Fugitive."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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lyricist ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| lyricist | James Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | lyricist ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor | Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 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: James Sherman Description of subject: James Sherman is a lyricist best known for writing the words to the jazz standard "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.