William Grant Sherry
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William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Grant Sherry canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1271964 — 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: William Grant Sherry Context triple: [Bette Davis, spouse, William Grant Sherry]
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A.
Harrison Tweed
Harrison Tweed was a prominent American lawyer and legal reformer known for his leadership in bar associations and efforts to improve legal education and access to justice.
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B.
Richard Brown
Richard Brown is an American writer and illustrator best known as the husband and creative collaborator of author Reeve Lindbergh.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
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E.
Archibald Hamilton
Archibald Hamilton is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including Scottish nobles and politicians active in the 17th to 19th centuries.
- 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: William Grant Sherry Target entity description: William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
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A.
Harrison Tweed
Harrison Tweed was a prominent American lawyer and legal reformer known for his leadership in bar associations and efforts to improve legal education and access to justice.
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B.
Richard Brown
Richard Brown is an American writer and illustrator best known as the husband and creative collaborator of author Reeve Lindbergh.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
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E.
Archibald Hamilton
Archibald Hamilton is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including Scottish nobles and politicians active in the 17th to 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military veteran
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artist ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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visual arts ⓘ |
| genre |
figurative art
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portrait painting ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Bette Davis ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Bette Davis ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | William Grant Sherry ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Bette Davis ⓘ |
| notableWork | portrait paintings ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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painter ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War II ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Army soldier ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Bette Davis ⓘ |
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: William Grant Sherry Description of subject: William Grant Sherry was an American artist and World War II veteran best known as the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.