Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
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Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philemon Tecumseh Sherman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7572692 — 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: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]
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A.
Thomas Ewing Sherman
Thomas Ewing Sherman was an American lawyer who became a Jesuit priest and educator, known as the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
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B.
Thomas W. Sherman
Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
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C.
Alexander Victor Sherman
Alexander Victor Sherman, better known as Allie Sherman, was an American football coach and former NFL head coach of the New York Giants in the 1960s.
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D.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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E.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
- 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: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman Target entity description: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
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A.
Thomas Ewing Sherman
Thomas Ewing Sherman was an American lawyer who became a Jesuit priest and educator, known as the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
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B.
Thomas W. Sherman
Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
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C.
Alexander Victor Sherman
Alexander Victor Sherman, better known as Allie Sherman, was an American football coach and former NFL head coach of the New York Giants in the 1960s.
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D.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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E.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| father | William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| givenName | Philemon ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity |
English American
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Irish American ⓘ |
| lifestyle | private life outside his father's military fame ⓘ |
| middleName | Tecumseh ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Ewing Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Ewing family
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Sherman family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a son of William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| partOf |
19th-century Americans
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children of William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ |
| relative |
Charles Celestine Sherman
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Charles Ewing ⓘ Eleanor Mary Sherman ⓘ Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sherman ⓘ Hugh Boyle Ewing ⓘ Mary Elizabeth Sherman ⓘ Minnie Sherman ⓘ Paddy Sherman ⓘ Rachel Ewing Sherman ⓘ Thomas Ewing ⓘ Thomas Ewing Sherman ⓘ Tom Sherman ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman Jr. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman Description of subject: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.