Petunia Dursley
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Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter’s magic-hating Muggle aunt who, along with her husband Vernon, begrudgingly raises him in the Dursley household.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Petunia Dursley canonical | 8 |
| Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter film series) | 2 |
| Dursley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971588 — 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: Petunia Dursley Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, character, Petunia Dursley]
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Dudley Dursley
Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s spoiled and bullying cousin, known for tormenting Harry throughout much of the series before gradually showing small signs of change.
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Dursley
Dursley is a historic market town in South West England, situated near the Cotswold escarpment and known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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Mary Storer Potter
Mary Storer Potter was the first wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom he married in 1831 and who died tragically young.
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Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
- 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: Petunia Dursley Target entity description: Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter’s magic-hating Muggle aunt who, along with her husband Vernon, begrudgingly raises him in the Dursley household.
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A.
Dudley Dursley
Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s spoiled and bullying cousin, known for tormenting Harry throughout much of the series before gradually showing small signs of change.
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B.
Dursley
Dursley is a historic market town in South West England, situated near the Cotswold escarpment and known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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C.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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D.
Mary Storer Potter
Mary Storer Potter was the first wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom he married in 1831 and who died tragically young.
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E.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Petunia Dursley Description of subject: Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter’s magic-hating Muggle aunt who, along with her husband Vernon, begrudgingly raises him in the Dursley household.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Uncle Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
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Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
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subject linked to:
Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film series
linked to: Petunia Dursley
Uncle Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
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spouse
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Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
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subject linked to:
Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film series
linked to: Petunia Dursley
linked to: Petunia Dursley