Gerald du Maurier
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerald du Maurier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4374201 — 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: Gerald du Maurier Context triple: [St James's Theatre, notableManager, Gerald 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.
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright best known for pioneering the sensation novel with works such as "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone."
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C.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Gerald du Maurier Target entity description: 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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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.
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright best known for pioneering the sensation novel with works such as "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone."
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C.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| activeIn | London theatre scene ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1890s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | knighthood ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Golders Green Crematorium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colon cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Angela du Maurier
NERFINISHED
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Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1873-03-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1934-04-11 ⓘ |
| familyName | du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
actor‑manager work in London theatre
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naturalistic acting style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
stage role of Captain Hook in "Peter Pan"
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stage role of Mr Darling in "Peter Pan" ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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stage director ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| parent |
Emma Wightwick
NERFINISHED
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George du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
manager of St James's Theatre
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manager of Wyndham's Theatre ⓘ |
| relative | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Guy du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Muriel Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
naturalistic acting
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subtle acting ⓘ |
| workedAt |
St James's Theatre
NERFINISHED
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Wyndham's Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gerald du Maurier Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.