Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
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Sylvia Llewelyn Davies was the real-life mother of the boys who inspired J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and a central figure in the story behind his creation of Neverland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvia Llewelyn Davies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5358867 — 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: Sylvia Llewelyn Davies Context triple: [Finding Neverland, mainCharacter, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies]
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A.
Anne Liddell
Anne Liddell was an 18th-century British noblewoman best known as the wife of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, a prominent Whig statesman and Prime Minister.
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B.
Jane Banks
Jane Banks is a fictional character from the Mary Poppins stories, depicted as one of the Banks children who is revisited as an adult in later adaptations.
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C.
Alice Chambers
Alice Chambers is the protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Don't Worry Darling," a 1950s housewife who begins to uncover disturbing truths about her seemingly idyllic community.
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D.
Mary Lennox
Mary Lennox is the orphaned, initially sour young heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "The Secret Garden," whose discovery of a hidden garden transforms her life and character.
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E.
Polly Wilkins
Polly Wilkins is a fictional character appearing in the action spy film "The King’s Man."
- 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: Sylvia Llewelyn Davies Target entity description: Sylvia Llewelyn Davies was the real-life mother of the boys who inspired J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and a central figure in the story behind his creation of Neverland.
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A.
Anne Liddell
Anne Liddell was an 18th-century British noblewoman best known as the wife of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, a prominent Whig statesman and Prime Minister.
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B.
Jane Banks
Jane Banks is a fictional character from the Mary Poppins stories, depicted as one of the Banks children who is revisited as an adult in later adaptations.
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C.
Alice Chambers
Alice Chambers is the protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Don't Worry Darling," a 1950s housewife who begins to uncover disturbing truths about her seemingly idyllic community.
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D.
Mary Lennox
Mary Lennox is the orphaned, initially sour young heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "The Secret Garden," whose discovery of a hidden garden transforms her life and character.
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E.
Polly Wilkins
Polly Wilkins is a fictional character appearing in the action spy film "The King’s Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | J. M. Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| auntOf | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1866-11-25 ⓘ |
| birthName | Sylvia Jocelyn Busson du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| burialPlace | Hampstead Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| child |
George Llewelyn Davies
NERFINISHED
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Jack Llewelyn Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Llewelyn Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Llewelyn Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Llewelyn Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1910-08-27 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| era |
Edwardian era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Victorian era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | George du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAppearanceAsCharacter | Finding Neverland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf | J. M. Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Sylvia Jocelyn Busson du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jocelyn
NERFINISHED
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Sylvia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
the background to Neverland in Peter Pan
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the relationship between Wendy and the Darling family and Peter Pan ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1892 ⓘ |
| mother | Emma Wightwick du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | met J. M. Barrie in Kensington Gardens in the late 1890s ⓘ |
| notableFact | widowed in 1907 on the death of her husband Arthur Llewelyn Davies ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kate Winslet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Finding Neverland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Kensington Gardens area, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Gerald du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Arthur Llewelyn Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy | J. M. Barrie after her husband’s death 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: Sylvia Llewelyn Davies Description of subject: Sylvia Llewelyn Davies was the real-life mother of the boys who inspired J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and a central figure in the story behind his creation of Neverland.
Referenced by (1)
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