Mary Hoyt Sherman
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Mary Hoyt Sherman was the wife of prominent U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles, associated with late 19th-century American military and social circles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Hoyt Sherman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9784212 — 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Context triple: [Nelson A. Miles, spouse, Mary Hoyt Sherman]
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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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B.
Maria Ewing Sherman
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
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C.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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D.
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, better known as Natacha Rambova, was an American film costume and set designer, actress, and artistic director of the silent film era who was also famously married to actor Rudolph Valentino.
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E.
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, better known as Winifred de Wolfe, was an American socialite and interior decorator associated with early 20th-century high society.
- 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Target entity description: Mary Hoyt Sherman was the wife of prominent U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles, associated with late 19th-century American military and social circles.
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A.
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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B.
Maria Ewing Sherman
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
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C.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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D.
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, better known as Natacha Rambova, was an American film costume and set designer, actress, and artistic director of the silent film era who was also famously married to actor Rudolph Valentino.
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E.
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, better known as Winifred de Wolfe, was an American socialite and interior decorator associated with early 20th-century high society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
U.S. Army social circles
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late 19th-century American military society ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Mary Hoyt Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of General Nelson A. Miles ⓘ |
| spouse | Nelson A. Miles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseMilitaryBranch | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | U.S. Army general ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Mary Hoyt Sherman Description of subject: Mary Hoyt Sherman was the wife of prominent U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles, associated with late 19th-century American military and social circles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.