Ordinary, pre-LLM databases are not regarded by anyone as intelligent (AFAIK), but you can still get correct answers from them. Therefore, giving right answers

Ordinary, pre-LLM databases are not regarded by anyone as intelligent (AFAIK), but you can still get correct answers from them. Therefore, giving right answers is not a defining characteristic of intelligence. Note that this reply does not endorse any particular position on the question of whether LLMs have any sort of intelligence.