Sherman
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Sherman is a city in north-central Texas that serves as a regional hub for commerce and transportation in the Texoma area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1450258 — 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: Sherman Context triple: [North Texas Regional Airport, hasCity, Sherman]
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A.
The General
The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
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B.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
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C.
Pershing
Pershing is a surname most notably associated with John J. Pershing, the prominent American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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D.
Burnside
Burnside is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals, including Australian barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside.
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E.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
- 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: Sherman Target entity description: Sherman is a city in north-central Texas that serves as a regional hub for commerce and transportation in the Texoma area.
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A.
The General
The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
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B.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
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C.
Pershing
Pershing is a surname most notably associated with John J. Pershing, the prominent American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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D.
Burnside
Burnside is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals, including Australian barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside.
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E.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode |
430
ⓘ
903 ⓘ |
| borderingCounty |
Collin County, Texas
ⓘ
Cooke County, Texas ⓘ Denton County, Texas ⓘ Fannin County, Texas ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Grayson County, Texas ⓘ |
| distanceFromDallas | approximately 65 miles ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 228 meters
ⓘ
approximately 748 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-67792 ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1846 ⓘ |
| function |
regional hub for commerce in the Texoma area
ⓘ
regional hub for transportation in the Texoma area ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1346543 ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasAirport |
North Texas Regional Airport (nearby)
ⓘ
linked to:
North Texas Regional Airport
|
| hasCollege |
Grayson College (main campus nearby)
ⓘ
linked to:
Grayson College
|
| hasUniversity | Austin College ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Dallas–Fort Worth combined statistical area
ⓘ
linked to:
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Sherman–Denison metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
North Texas
ⓘ
Texoma ⓘ
linked to:
Texoma region
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Denison, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Denison, Texas, United States
Red River of the South ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Texas State Highway 56
ⓘ
U.S. Route 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 82 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
education
ⓘ
healthcare ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sidney Sherman ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.cityofsherman.com/ ⓘ |
| postalCode |
75090
ⓘ
75092 ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Texoma
ⓘ
linked to:
Texoma region
|
| role | county seat of Grayson County, Texas ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
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: Sherman Description of subject: Sherman is a city in north-central Texas that serves as a regional hub for commerce and transportation in the Texoma area.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.