Margaret Sherman
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Margaret Sherman was the wife of prominent American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, known for her role within Chicago’s elite social circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Sherman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3131623 — 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: Margaret Sherman Context triple: [Daniel Burnham, spouse, Margaret Sherman]
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A.
Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink is an Australian film producer best known for her work on influential Australian New Wave films, including the acclaimed adaptation of "My Brilliant Career."
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B.
Marjorie Hearn
Marjorie Hearn was the longtime wife and partner of legendary Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn.
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C.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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D.
Margaret Hazard
Margaret Hazard was the wife of influential American economist Irving Fisher and a member of the prominent Hazard family of Rhode Island industrialists and philanthropists.
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E.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
- 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: Margaret Sherman Target entity description: Margaret Sherman was the wife of prominent American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, known for her role within Chicago’s elite social circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink is an Australian film producer best known for her work on influential Australian New Wave films, including the acclaimed adaptation of "My Brilliant Career."
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B.
Marjorie Hearn
Marjorie Hearn was the longtime wife and partner of legendary Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn.
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C.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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D.
Margaret Hazard
Margaret Hazard was the wife of influential American economist Irving Fisher and a member of the prominent Hazard family of Rhode Island industrialists and philanthropists.
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E.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chicago elite social circles ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in Chicago high society ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago ⓘ |
| spouse | Daniel Burnham ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
architect
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urban planner ⓘ |
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: Margaret Sherman Description of subject: Margaret Sherman was the wife of prominent American architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, known for her role within Chicago’s elite social circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.