Argus Filch
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Argus Filch is the cantankerous, magic-less caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, known for his strictness and dislike of students in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Argus Filch canonical | 12 |
| Filch | 1 |
| Hogwarts caretaker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971592 — 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: Argus Filch Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, character, Argus Filch]
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A.
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid is the half-giant gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, known for his kindness, loyalty, and love of dangerous magical creatures in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge is a high-ranking Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who becomes the tyrannical Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor in the Harry Potter series.
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C.
Severus Snape
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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D.
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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E.
Professor Sybill Trelawney
Professor Sybill Trelawney is the eccentric and often sherry-soaked Divination teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for her dramatic prophecies and questionable predictive abilities.
- 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: Argus Filch Target entity description: Argus Filch is the cantankerous, magic-less caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, known for his strictness and dislike of students in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid is the half-giant gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, known for his kindness, loyalty, and love of dangerous magical creatures in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge is a high-ranking Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who becomes the tyrannical Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor in the Harry Potter series.
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C.
Severus Snape
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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D.
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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E.
Professor Sybill Trelawney
Professor Sybill Trelawney is the eccentric and often sherry-soaked Divination teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for her dramatic prophecies and questionable predictive abilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Argus Filch Description of subject: Argus Filch is the cantankerous, magic-less caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, known for his strictness and dislike of students in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Argus Filch
linked to: Argus Filch