Leslie Durrell
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Leslie Durrell is a character in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu memoirs and their TV adaptation, portrayed as the gun-obsessed, often hapless older brother in the eccentric Durrell family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leslie Durrell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759944 — 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: Leslie Durrell Context triple: [The Durrells in Corfu, mainCharacter, Leslie 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.
Larry Durrell
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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C.
Dorothy Darrell
Dorothy Darrell was the wife of Hungarian-American film producer Joe Pasternak, known for her connection to his life and career in Hollywood.
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D.
George Egerton
George Egerton was the pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne, a pioneering late 19th-century Anglo-Irish writer whose experimental short stories helped shape early modernist and feminist literature.
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E.
C. M. Woolf
C. M. Woolf was a British film producer and distributor active in the early 20th century, known for his involvement in significant silent and early sound films.
- 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: Leslie Durrell Target entity description: Leslie Durrell is a character in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu memoirs and their TV adaptation, portrayed as the gun-obsessed, often hapless older brother in the eccentric Durrell family.
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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.
Larry Durrell
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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C.
Dorothy Darrell
Dorothy Darrell was the wife of Hungarian-American film producer Joe Pasternak, known for her connection to his life and career in Hollywood.
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D.
George Egerton
George Egerton was the pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne, a pioneering late 19th-century Anglo-Irish writer whose experimental short stories helped shape early modernist and feminist literature.
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E.
C. M. Woolf
C. M. Woolf was a British film producer and distributor active in the early 20th century, known for his involvement in significant silent and early sound films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Leslie Durrell (The Durrells TV character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
My Family and Other Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ The Durrells (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Durrells (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Garden of the Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Leslie Durrell (memoir character)
NERFINISHED
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Leslie Durrell (real person) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fondness for hunting
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interest in guns ⓘ sometimes accident-prone ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Greece (in memoirs) ⓘ |
| creator | Gerald Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Durrell family Corfu memoirs ⓘ |
| givenName | Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Louisa Durrell (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Gerald Durrell (character)
NERFINISHED
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Larry Durrell (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Margo Durrell (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Durrell family (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Durrell family (fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic character
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comic relief ⓘ foil to Gerald Durrell (character) ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
gun-obsessed
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gun-obsessed ⓘ hapless ⓘ often hapless ⓘ older brother ⓘ practical ⓘ responsible older brother ⓘ |
| residence |
Corfu (in memoirs)
NERFINISHED
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Corfu (in series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Leslie Durrell Description of subject: Leslie Durrell is a character in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu memoirs and their TV adaptation, portrayed as the gun-obsessed, often hapless older brother in the eccentric Durrell family.
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