Walter de Havilland

E240902

academic human patent attorney

Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney and academic best known as the father of actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Walter de Havilland canonical	5

Statements (27)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic ⓘ human ⓘ patent attorney ⓘ
child	Joan Fontaine ⓘ Olivia de Havilland ⓘ
citizenship	British ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
employer	University of Tokyo ⓘ surface form: Imperial University of Tokyo
ethnicGroup	British ⓘ
familyName	de Havilland ⓘ
fatherOf	Joan Fontaine ⓘ Olivia de Havilland ⓘ
fieldOfWork	patent law ⓘ
givenName	Walter ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	Walter de Havilland self-link ⓘ
notableFor	being the father of Joan Fontaine ⓘ being the father of Olivia de Havilland ⓘ
notableRelative	Joan Fontaine ⓘ Olivia de Havilland ⓘ
notableWork	A Sketch of the Patent Law of Japan ⓘ
occupation	academic ⓘ patent attorney ⓘ
residence	Japan ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Lilian Augusta Ruse ⓘ

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: Walter de Havilland
Description of subject: Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney and academic best known as the father of actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Olivia de Havilland → relative → Walter de Havilland ⓘ

Joan Fontaine → parent → Walter de Havilland ⓘ

Walter de Havilland → name → Walter de Havilland self-link ⓘ

Lilian Fontaine → spouse → Walter de Havilland ⓘ

Lilian Fontaine → relative → Walter de Havilland ⓘ