Sherman family of Ohio
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The Sherman family of Ohio is a prominent American political and military dynasty best known for producing influential figures such as Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and statesman John Sherman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sherman family of Ohio canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3075805 — 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 family of Ohio Context triple: [Mary Hoyt Sherman, memberOf, Sherman family of Ohio]
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De Witt family
The De Witt family was a prominent Dutch patrician dynasty from Dordrecht that played a leading role in the politics and governance of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century.
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Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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Lyman family
The Lyman family is a prominent New England lineage with deep roots in early American history, known for its social, political, and economic influence and intermarriage with other notable families such as the Delanos.
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Bingham family
The Bingham family is a prominent American family historically known for its wealth, social standing, and influence, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Pohlad family
The Pohlad family is a prominent Minnesota business family best known for its long-time ownership of the Major League Baseball team, the Minnesota Twins.
- 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 family of Ohio Target entity description: The Sherman family of Ohio is a prominent American political and military dynasty best known for producing influential figures such as Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and statesman John Sherman.
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A.
De Witt family
The De Witt family was a prominent Dutch patrician dynasty from Dordrecht that played a leading role in the politics and governance of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century.
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B.
Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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C.
Lyman family
The Lyman family is a prominent New England lineage with deep roots in early American history, known for its social, political, and economic influence and intermarriage with other notable families such as the Delanos.
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D.
Bingham family
The Bingham family is a prominent American family historically known for its wealth, social standing, and influence, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Pohlad family
The Pohlad family is a prominent Minnesota business family best known for its long-time ownership of the Major League Baseball team, the Minnesota Twins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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 family of Ohio Description of subject: The Sherman family of Ohio is a prominent American political and military dynasty best known for producing influential figures such as Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and statesman John Sherman.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Sherman family of Ohio