George du Maurier
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George du Maurier was a 19th-century Franco-British cartoonist and novelist best known for his work in Punch magazine and for writing the novel "Trilby."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George du Maurier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12851740 — 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: George du Maurier Context triple: [Hampstead Cemetery, London, hasNotableBurial, George du Maurier]
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A.
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist, and critic renowned for his wit, stylish prose, and satirical drawings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was a 19th-century English novelist best known for his satirical works, particularly the novel "Vanity Fair."
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C.
Ford Madox Hueffer
Ford Madox Hueffer, later known as Ford Madox Ford, was an influential early 20th-century English novelist, critic, and editor associated with literary modernism.
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D.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
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E.
Robert Surtees
Robert Surtees was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his richly photographed Hollywood classics and multiple Academy Award-winning 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: George du Maurier Target entity description: George du Maurier was a 19th-century Franco-British cartoonist and novelist best known for his work in Punch magazine and for writing the novel "Trilby."
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A.
Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist, and critic renowned for his wit, stylish prose, and satirical drawings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was a 19th-century English novelist best known for his satirical works, particularly the novel "Vanity Fair."
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C.
Ford Madox Hueffer
Ford Madox Hueffer, later known as Ford Madox Ford, was an influential early 20th-century English novelist, critic, and editor associated with literary modernism.
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D.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
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E.
Robert Surtees
Robert Surtees was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his richly photographed Hollywood classics and multiple Academy Award-winning work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cartoonist
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illustrator ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1896 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1860 ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1834-03-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hampstead Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| child |
Beatrix du Maurier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gerald du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1896-10-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| education | Académie Julian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Punch magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | French ⓘ |
| familyName | du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Louis-Mathurin du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
illustration ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| givenName | George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandparentOf | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| illustratedFor |
Punch magazine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Cornhill Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
British popular culture
ⓘ
Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
novel Trilby
ⓘ
work for Punch magazine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | George du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableCharacterCreated | Svengali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Peter Ibbetson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Martian NERFINISHED ⓘ Trilby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
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illustrator ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| spouse | Emma Wightwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: George du Maurier Description of subject: George du Maurier was a 19th-century Franco-British cartoonist and novelist best known for his work in Punch magazine and for writing the novel "Trilby."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.