Charles Taylor Sherman
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Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Taylor Sherman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4853756 — 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: Charles Taylor Sherman Context triple: [Charles Robert Sherman, child, Charles Taylor Sherman]
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A.
Daniel Stewart Sherman
Daniel Stewart Sherman is an American stage actor known for originating roles in major Broadway productions, including the musical "Kinky Boots."
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B.
Edward Abel Smith
Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Glen H. Taylor
Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
- 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: Charles Taylor Sherman Target entity description: Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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A.
Daniel Stewart Sherman
Daniel Stewart Sherman is an American stage actor known for originating roles in major Broadway productions, including the musical "Kinky Boots."
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B.
Edward Abel Smith
Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Glen H. Taylor
Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
ⓘ
judge ⓘ person ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lancaster, Ohio schools
ⓘ
Ohio University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Republican Party
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Charles Robert Sherman
ⓘ
John Sherman ⓘ Mary Hoyt Sherman ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as U.S. district judge in Ohio ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | Sherman family ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States federal judge
ⓘ
judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
John Sherman
ⓘ
William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cleveland, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleveland
Mansfield, Ohio ⓘ Ohio ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Charles Taylor Sherman Description of subject: Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.