Rachel Ewing Sherman
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Rachel Ewing Sherman was a daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, belonging to a prominent 19th-century American military and political family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rachel Ewing Sherman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7572690 — 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: Rachel Ewing Sherman Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Rachel Ewing Sherman]
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Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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B.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
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C.
Maria Ewing Sherman
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Margaret Sherman
Margaret Sherman was the wife of prominent American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, known for her role within Chicago’s elite social circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Rachel Ewing Sherman Target entity description: Rachel Ewing Sherman was a daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, belonging to a prominent 19th-century American military and political family.
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A.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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B.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
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C.
Maria Ewing Sherman
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Margaret Sherman
Margaret Sherman was the wife of prominent American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, known for her role within Chicago’s elite social circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William Tecumseh Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Rachel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | socialite ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring |
19th century
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Gilded Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Ewing family
NERFINISHED
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Sherman family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Ewing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Ewing Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Ewing family
NERFINISHED
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Sherman family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a daughter of William Tecumseh Sherman
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membership in a prominent American military and political family ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Charles Ewing
NERFINISHED
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Hugh Boyle Ewing NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Ewing NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Ewing Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American military and political elite ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Charles Celestine Sherman
NERFINISHED
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Eleanor Mary Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Ewing Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Elizabeth Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Philemon Tecumseh Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Ewing Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman Jr. 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: Rachel Ewing Sherman Description of subject: Rachel Ewing Sherman was a daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, belonging to a prominent 19th-century American military and political family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.