Eleanor Mary Sherman
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Eleanor Mary Sherman was the daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily as a member of this prominent 19th-century American family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleanor Mary Sherman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7572693 — 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: Eleanor Mary Sherman Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Eleanor Mary Sherman]
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A.
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt was an American art patron and collector who, with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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B.
Eleanor Boardman
Eleanor Boardman was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s, best known for her work with director King Vidor and her performances in films such as "The Crowd."
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C.
Eleanor Perry
Eleanor Perry was an American screenwriter and playwright best known for her psychologically nuanced film and television scripts in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Eleanor Agnes Lee
Eleanor Agnes Lee was the daughter of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Anne Hill Carter Lee, known for her devout religious life and posthumously published letters and writings.
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E.
Eleanor Stanhope
Eleanor Stanhope is a fictional member of the Stanhope family in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known primarily as the sister of Signor Bertie Stanhope.
- 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: Eleanor Mary Sherman Target entity description: Eleanor Mary Sherman was the daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily as a member of this prominent 19th-century American family.
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A.
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt was an American art patron and collector who, with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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B.
Eleanor Boardman
Eleanor Boardman was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s, best known for her work with director King Vidor and her performances in films such as "The Crowd."
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C.
Eleanor Perry
Eleanor Perry was an American screenwriter and playwright best known for her psychologically nuanced film and television scripts in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Eleanor Agnes Lee
Eleanor Agnes Lee was the daughter of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Anne Hill Carter Lee, known for her devout religious life and posthumously published letters and writings.
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E.
Eleanor Stanhope
Eleanor Stanhope is a fictional member of the Stanhope family in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known primarily as the sister of Signor Bertie Stanhope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| father | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| givenName | Eleanor ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Mary ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Ewing Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Ewing family
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Sherman family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
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membership in a prominent 19th-century American family ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century United States society ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Charles Celestine Sherman
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Maria Ewing Sherman ⓘ Mary Elizabeth Sherman ⓘ Philemon Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ Rachel Ewing Sherman ⓘ Thomas Ewing Sherman ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman Jr. ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| 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: Eleanor Mary Sherman Description of subject: Eleanor Mary Sherman was the daughter of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily as a member of this prominent 19th-century American family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.