Angela du Maurier
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Angela du Maurier was a British writer and actress, best known as the lesser-known but also literary sister of novelist Daphne du Maurier.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angela du Maurier canonical | 6 |
| Jeanne du Maurier | 3 |
| du Maurier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7298112 — 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: Angela du Maurier Context triple: [Daphne du Maurier, sibling, Angela du Maurier]
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A.
Daphne du Maurier
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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B.
Gerald du Maurier
Gerald du Maurier was a prominent early 20th-century English actor-manager known for his subtle, naturalistic acting style and influential leadership in the London theatre scene.
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C.
Helen Murdoch
Helen Murdoch is a member of the prominent Murdoch family, known primarily as a daughter of influential Australian journalist and media executive Keith Murdoch.
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D.
Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was a British crime novelist best known for her Albert Campion detective series, a cornerstone of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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E.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
- 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: Angela du Maurier Target entity description: Angela du Maurier was a British writer and actress, best known as the lesser-known but also literary sister of novelist Daphne du Maurier.
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A.
Daphne du Maurier
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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B.
Gerald du Maurier
Gerald du Maurier was a prominent early 20th-century English actor-manager known for his subtle, naturalistic acting style and influential leadership in the London theatre scene.
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C.
Helen Murdoch
Helen Murdoch is a member of the prominent Murdoch family, known primarily as a daughter of influential Australian journalist and media executive Keith Murdoch.
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D.
Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was a British crime novelist best known for her Albert Campion detective series, a cornerstone of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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E.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName |
du Maurier
ⓘ
linked to:
Angela du Maurier
|
| father | Gerald du Maurier ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Angela ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Muriel Beaumont ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the sister of novelist Daphne du Maurier ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Daphne du Maurier ⓘ |
| notableWork |
It's Only the Sister
ⓘ
Old Maids Remember ⓘ Pilgrims by the Way ⓘ The Little Less ⓘ The Road to Leenane ⓘ Treveryan ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| placeOfDeath | Cornwall ⓘ |
| relative |
George du Maurier
ⓘ
Sir Frederick Treves ⓘ
linked to:
Frederick Treves
|
| residence | Cornwall ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Daphne du Maurier
ⓘ
Jeanne du Maurier ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Angela du Maurier Description of subject: Angela du Maurier was a British writer and actress, best known as the lesser-known but also literary sister of novelist Daphne du Maurier.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Angela du Maurier
linked to: Angela du Maurier
linked to: Angela du Maurier
linked to: Angela du Maurier