de Havilland
E613099
De Havilland is the distinguished Anglo-French family name shared by Hollywood actresses Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| de Havilland canonical | 8 |
| de Havilland family | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6711754 — 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: de Havilland Context triple: [Joan Fontaine, familyName, de Havilland]
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A.
de Havilland Aircraft Company
De Havilland Aircraft Company was a major British aviation manufacturer renowned for designing innovative military and civilian aircraft, including iconic World War II planes.
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B.
De Havilland Canada
De Havilland Canada is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer best known for its rugged short takeoff and landing (STOL) regional and utility aircraft used worldwide.
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C.
Avro Canada
Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company best known for advanced military and experimental aircraft projects such as the CF-100 Canuck and the Avro Arrow.
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D.
Canadair
Canadair was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer best known for producing specialized amphibious firefighting and utility aircraft before becoming part of Bombardier Aerospace.
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E.
Hawker Aircraft
Hawker Aircraft was a prominent British aircraft manufacturer best known for producing iconic military planes such as the Hawker Hurricane during the early to mid-20th century.
- 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: de Havilland Target entity description: De Havilland is the distinguished Anglo-French family name shared by Hollywood actresses Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland.
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A.
de Havilland Aircraft Company
De Havilland Aircraft Company was a major British aviation manufacturer renowned for designing innovative military and civilian aircraft, including iconic World War II planes.
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B.
De Havilland Canada
De Havilland Canada is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer best known for its rugged short takeoff and landing (STOL) regional and utility aircraft used worldwide.
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C.
Avro Canada
Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company best known for advanced military and experimental aircraft projects such as the CF-100 Canuck and the Avro Arrow.
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D.
Canadair
Canadair was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer best known for producing specialized amphibious firefighting and utility aircraft before becoming part of Bombardier Aerospace.
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E.
Hawker Aircraft
Hawker Aircraft was a prominent British aircraft manufacturer best known for producing iconic military planes such as the Hawker Hurricane during the early to mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hollywood actress
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family name ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1916-07-01
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1917-10-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
2013-12-15
ⓘ
2020-07-26 ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Havilland
ⓘ
de Havilland ⓘ |
| givenName |
Joan
ⓘ
Olivia ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Joan Fontaine
ⓘ
Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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French ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gone with the Wind ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tokyo
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Tokyo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
female
ⓘ
female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Joan Fontaine
ⓘ
Olivia 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: de Havilland Description of subject: De Havilland is the distinguished Anglo-French family name shared by Hollywood actresses Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: de Havilland
linked to: de Havilland
linked to: de Havilland
subject linked to:
de Havilland
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de Havilland