Charles Celestine Sherman
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Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Celestine Sherman canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7572691 — 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 Celestine Sherman Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Charles Celestine Sherman]
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A.
Charles Taylor Sherman
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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B.
Charles Robert Sherman
Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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C.
Mary Hoyt Sherman
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
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D.
Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
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E.
Carr Bowers McClenny
Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
- 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 Celestine Sherman Target entity description: Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
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A.
Charles Taylor Sherman
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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B.
Charles Robert Sherman
Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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C.
Mary Hoyt Sherman
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
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D.
Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
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E.
Carr Bowers McClenny
Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child |
Charles Celestine Sherman
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Charles Celestine Sherman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| father | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | Sherman family ⓘ |
| middleName | Celestine ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Ewing Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | Union Army general ⓘ |
| relative |
Ellen Ewing Sherman
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William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ellen Ewing Sherman
ⓘ
William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
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: Charles Celestine Sherman Description of subject: Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.