Larry Durrell
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Larry Durrell is a character based on the real-life British writer Lawrence Durrell, depicted as the witty, bohemian older brother in the TV series "The Durrells in Corfu."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lawrence Durrell | 3 |
| Larry Durrell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759943 — 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: Larry Durrell Context triple: [The Durrells in Corfu, mainCharacter, Larry Durrell]
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A.
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Durrell is the widowed matriarch of the Durrell family, portrayed as a determined yet often overwhelmed mother who relocates her eccentric brood from England to the Greek island of Corfu in the period drama "The Durrells in Corfu."
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B.
Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson was a prominent 20th-century British novelist and short story writer known for his satirical and socially observant fiction.
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C.
John Bayley
John Bayley was a British literary critic and memoirist best known for his writings about his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, and their life together.
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D.
D. M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet best known for his controversial, psychologically complex works such as the novel "The White Hotel."
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E.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
- 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: Larry Durrell Target entity description: Larry Durrell is a character based on the real-life British writer Lawrence Durrell, depicted as the witty, bohemian older brother in the TV series "The Durrells in Corfu."
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A.
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Durrell is the widowed matriarch of the Durrell family, portrayed as a determined yet often overwhelmed mother who relocates her eccentric brood from England to the Greek island of Corfu in the period drama "The Durrells in Corfu."
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B.
Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson was a prominent 20th-century British novelist and short story writer known for his satirical and socially observant fiction.
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C.
John Bayley
John Bayley was a British literary critic and memoirist best known for his writings about his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, and their life together.
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D.
D. M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet best known for his controversial, psychologically complex works such as the novel "The White Hotel."
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E.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lawrence Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Durrells in Corfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | events in Lawrence Durrell’s life ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| partOf | Durrell family (fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
bohemian
ⓘ
older brother ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalWork | Corfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Gerry Durrell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leslie Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisa Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Margo Durrell 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: Larry Durrell Description of subject: Larry Durrell is a character based on the real-life British writer Lawrence Durrell, depicted as the witty, bohemian older brother in the TV series "The Durrells in Corfu."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lawrence Durrell
subject surface form:
Gerald Durrell
this entity surface form:
Lawrence Durrell