Severus Snape
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Severus Snape is a complex, morally ambiguous Hogwarts professor and skilled Potions master who plays a pivotal role throughout the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Severus Snape canonical | 85 |
| Severus Snape (film character) | 1 |
| Severus Snape (ostensibly) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971583 — 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: Severus Snape Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, character, Severus Snape]
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A.
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore is the wise and powerful headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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B.
Remus Lupin
Remus Lupin is a kind but tormented werewolf and former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for his close friendship with Harry’s parents and his role in mentoring Harry.
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C.
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is a pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, known as Harry's wrongly imprisoned godfather and a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
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D.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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E.
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
- 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: Severus Snape Target entity description: Severus Snape is a complex, morally ambiguous Hogwarts professor and skilled Potions master who plays a pivotal role throughout the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore is the wise and powerful headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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B.
Remus Lupin
Remus Lupin is a kind but tormented werewolf and former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for his close friendship with Harry’s parents and his role in mentoring Harry.
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C.
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is a pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, known as Harry's wrongly imprisoned godfather and a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
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D.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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E.
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Severus Snape Description of subject: Severus Snape is a complex, morally ambiguous Hogwarts professor and skilled Potions master who plays a pivotal role throughout the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Professor Sybill Trelawney
subject linked to:
Professor Sybill Trelawney
linked to: Severus Snape
linked to: Severus Snape
subject linked to:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel)