Mary Hoyt Sherman
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Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Hoyt Sherman canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T393879 — 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Context triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman]
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A.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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B.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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C.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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D.
Dorothy Walker Bush
Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Target entity description: Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
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A.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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B.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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C.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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D.
Dorothy Walker Bush
Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| child | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sherman
ⓘ
linked to:
William Tecumseh Sherman
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| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasMaidenName | Hoyt ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Sherman family
ⓘ
Sherman family of Ohio ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio
ⓘ
being the mother of William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Ohio ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Description of subject: Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.