Sherry
E530728
Sherry is a surname most notably associated with William Grant Sherry, an American painter and the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5515142 — 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: Sherry Context triple: [William Grant Sherry, familyName, Sherry]
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A.
Manzanilla sherry
Manzanilla sherry is a pale, dry style of fino sherry uniquely aged under flor yeast by the sea in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, giving it a distinctive light, salty character.
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B.
Pedro Ximénez sweet sherry
Pedro Ximénez sweet sherry is a rich, dark, intensely sweet Spanish dessert wine made from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes, known for its raisin, fig, and caramel flavors.
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C.
Kavalan
Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
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D.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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E.
Winer
Winer is a surname most notably associated with Dave Winer, an influential software developer and pioneer of blogging and RSS technologies.
- 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: Sherry Target entity description: Sherry is a surname most notably associated with William Grant Sherry, an American painter and the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
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A.
Manzanilla sherry
Manzanilla sherry is a pale, dry style of fino sherry uniquely aged under flor yeast by the sea in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, giving it a distinctive light, salty character.
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B.
Pedro Ximénez sweet sherry
Pedro Ximénez sweet sherry is a rich, dark, intensely sweet Spanish dessert wine made from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes, known for its raisin, fig, and caramel flavors.
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C.
Kavalan
Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
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D.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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E.
Winer
Winer is a surname most notably associated with Dave Winer, an influential software developer and pioneer of blogging and RSS technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableBearer | William Grant Sherry ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Bette Davis ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
painter ⓘ |
| spouse | Bette Davis ⓘ |
| usedBy | William Grant Sherry ⓘ |
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: Sherry Description of subject: Sherry is a surname most notably associated with William Grant Sherry, an American painter and the third husband of actress Bette Davis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.