Lilian Fontaine
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Lilian Fontaine was a British-born actress and the mother of famed Hollywood stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilian Fontaine canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2154236 — 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: Lilian Fontaine Context triple: [Olivia de Havilland, relative, Lilian Fontaine]
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A.
Camille Lefèvre
Camille Lefèvre was a Swiss architect best known for co-designing the Palais des Nations, the former League of Nations headquarters in Geneva.
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B.
Evangeline Bellefontaine
Evangeline Bellefontaine is a fictional protagonist, likely from a narrative centered on her personal journey, relationships, and transformative experiences.
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C.
Alix de Foresta
Alix de Foresta is a French aristocrat best known as the wife of Louis Napoléon, Prince Napoléon, a claimant to the former imperial throne of France.
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D.
Charlotte Charpentier
Charlotte Charpentier was the wife of renowned Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott.
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E.
Marguerite Gaudelet
Marguerite Gaudelet was the wife of French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel, famed designer of the Eiffel Tower.
- 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: Lilian Fontaine Target entity description: Lilian Fontaine was a British-born actress and the mother of famed Hollywood stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
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A.
Camille Lefèvre
Camille Lefèvre was a Swiss architect best known for co-designing the Palais des Nations, the former League of Nations headquarters in Geneva.
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B.
Evangeline Bellefontaine
Evangeline Bellefontaine is a fictional protagonist, likely from a narrative centered on her personal journey, relationships, and transformative experiences.
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C.
Alix de Foresta
Alix de Foresta is a French aristocrat best known as the wife of Louis Napoléon, Prince Napoléon, a claimant to the former imperial throne of France.
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D.
Charlotte Charpentier
Charlotte Charpentier was the wife of renowned Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott.
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E.
Marguerite Gaudelet
Marguerite Gaudelet was the wife of French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel, famed designer of the Eiffel Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Lilian Augusta Ruse ⓘ |
| child |
Joan Fontaine
ⓘ
Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1886-06-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-02-20 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ruse
ⓘ
de Havilland ⓘ |
| givenName | Lilian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Joan Fontaine
ⓘ
Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| name | Lilian Fontaine ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Joan Fontaine
ⓘ
Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ivy
ⓘ
The Bigamist ⓘ The Lost Weekend ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Reading, Berkshire, England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Barbara, California, United States ⓘ |
| relative |
George Milan Fontaine
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Joan Fontaine ⓘ Olivia de Havilland ⓘ Walter de Havilland ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
Tokyo, Japan ⓘ
linked to:
Tokyo
|
| spouse |
George Milan Fontaine
ⓘ
Walter de Havilland ⓘ |
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: Lilian Fontaine Description of subject: Lilian Fontaine was a British-born actress and the mother of famed Hollywood stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.