Lloyd Sherman
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Lloyd Sherman is the spirited young Southern girl who serves as the title character in Annie Fellows Johnston's children's novel "The Little Colonel," known for her adventures and evolving relationship with her stern grandfather.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lloyd Sherman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10285835 — 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: Lloyd Sherman Context triple: [The Little Colonel, featuredCharacter, Lloyd Sherman]
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A.
James Lloyd
James Lloyd, better known by his stage name Lil' Cease, is an American rapper from Brooklyn associated with The Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
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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.
Lloyd Whitlock
Lloyd Whitlock was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his numerous supporting roles in silent and early sound films, including action serials and Westerns.
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D.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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E.
Charles Hart
Charles Hart is a British lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
- 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: Lloyd Sherman Target entity description: Lloyd Sherman is the spirited young Southern girl who serves as the title character in Annie Fellows Johnston's children's novel "The Little Colonel," known for her adventures and evolving relationship with her stern grandfather.
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A.
James Lloyd
James Lloyd, better known by his stage name Lil' Cease, is an American rapper from Brooklyn associated with The Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
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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.
Lloyd Whitlock
Lloyd Whitlock was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his numerous supporting roles in silent and early sound films, including action serials and Westerns.
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D.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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E.
Charles Hart
Charles Hart is a British lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | child ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | The Little Colonel series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Little Colonel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeInvolvement | evolving relationship with her stern grandfather ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
affectionate
ⓘ
headstrong ⓘ spirited ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Annie Fellows Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | American ⓘ |
| fictionalRegionalIdentity | Southern ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceAuthor | Annie Fellows Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Little Colonel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Lloyd Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | The Little Colonel’s grandfather ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
children’s literature
ⓘ
family fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
title character ⓘ |
| relationshipTo | granddaughter of the Little Colonel’s grandfather ⓘ |
| settingRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
Southern manners and traditions
ⓘ
family reconciliation ⓘ intergenerational relationships ⓘ |
| titleCharacterOf | The Little Colonel 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: Lloyd Sherman Description of subject: Lloyd Sherman is the spirited young Southern girl who serves as the title character in Annie Fellows Johnston's children's novel "The Little Colonel," known for her adventures and evolving relationship with her stern grandfather.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.