Howard Sherman
E418038
Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Sherman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3544948 — 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: Howard Sherman Context triple: [Sela Ward, spouse, Howard Sherman]
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A.
Bruce Sherman
Bruce Sherman is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins.
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B.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
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C.
Howard Bilerman
Howard Bilerman is a Canadian drummer, audio engineer, and record producer best known for his work with Arcade Fire and numerous influential indie rock recordings.
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D.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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E.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
- 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: Howard Sherman Target entity description: Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
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A.
Bruce Sherman
Bruce Sherman is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins.
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B.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
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C.
Howard Bilerman
Howard Bilerman is a Canadian drummer, audio engineer, and record producer best known for his work with Arcade Fire and numerous influential indie rock recordings.
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D.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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E.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasRelativeByMarriage | Sela Ward ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to actress Sela Ward ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ |
| partnerInProfession | film industry ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Howard Sherman
ⓘ
Sela Ward ⓘ |
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: Howard Sherman Description of subject: Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Howard Sherman