Daphne du Maurier
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Daphne du Maurier was a British novelist and playwright best known for her atmospheric works of psychological suspense, including "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daphne du Maurier canonical | 56 |
| Daphne du Maurier herself (partly, by author’s admission) | 1 |
| du Maurier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1425229 — 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: Daphne du Maurier Context triple: [Frederick Browning, spouse, Daphne du Maurier]
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A.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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B.
Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
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C.
Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope was a British novelist and playwright best known for his swashbuckling adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda," which became a classic of romantic adventure fiction.
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D.
Rebecca Gaskell
Rebecca Gaskell was the mother of British military leader and colonial administrator Robert Clive, a key figure in establishing British rule in India.
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E.
Ada Galsworthy
Ada Galsworthy was the wife of English novelist and Nobel laureate John Galsworthy, known primarily for her role in his personal life and as an influence on his literary work.
- 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: Daphne du Maurier Target entity description: Daphne du Maurier was a British novelist and playwright best known for her atmospheric works of psychological suspense, including "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn."
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A.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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B.
Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
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C.
Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope was a British novelist and playwright best known for his swashbuckling adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda," which became a classic of romantic adventure fiction.
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D.
Rebecca Gaskell
Rebecca Gaskell was the mother of British military leader and colonial administrator Robert Clive, a key figure in establishing British rule in India.
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E.
Ada Galsworthy
Ada Galsworthy was the wife of English novelist and Nobel laureate John Galsworthy, known primarily for her role in his personal life and as an influence on his literary work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Daphne du Maurier Description of subject: Daphne du Maurier was a British novelist and playwright best known for her atmospheric works of psychological suspense, including "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn."
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Daphne du Maurier
subject linked to:
Manderley (fictional estate)
subject linked to:
My Cousin Rachel
subject linked to:
Don't Look Now (1973 film)
linked to: Daphne du Maurier
subject linked to:
My Cousin Rachel
subject linked to:
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
subject linked to:
Mrs. Van Hopper in "Rebecca"
subject linked to:
My Cousin Rachel (novel)