Potter
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Potter is a masculine given name most notably borne by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Potter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1136102 — 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: Potter Context triple: [Potter Stewart, givenName, Potter]
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A.
Potter
Potter is the surname of Beatrix Potter, the renowned English writer, illustrator, and natural scientist best known for her children's books featuring animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
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B.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a young wizard who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and becomes famous for surviving an attack by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.
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C.
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter is a prominent American publishing imprint known for its high-quality cookbooks, lifestyle, and design titles.
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D.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series, introducing the young wizard Harry and his early adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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E.
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army is a secret student organization at Hogwarts, founded by Harry Potter to teach practical Defense Against the Dark Arts and resist Dolores Umbridge and Voldemort's forces.
- 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: Potter Target entity description: Potter is a masculine given name most notably borne by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
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A.
Potter
Potter is the surname of Beatrix Potter, the renowned English writer, illustrator, and natural scientist best known for her children's books featuring animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
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B.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a young wizard who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and becomes famous for surviving an attack by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.
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C.
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter is a prominent American publishing imprint known for its high-quality cookbooks, lifestyle, and design titles.
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D.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series, introducing the young wizard Harry and his early adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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E.
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army is a secret student organization at Hogwarts, founded by Harry Potter to teach practical Defense Against the Dark Arts and resist Dolores Umbridge and Voldemort's forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language given name
ⓘ
human ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Dwight D. Eisenhower ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-01-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-12-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale Law School
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from the occupational surname "Potter" ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| givenName | Potter ⓘ |
| hasNotableUsageIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Potter Stewart ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981 ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jackson, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Jackson, Michigan
|
| placeOfDeath | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| relatedNameType | derived from an occupational term for a maker of pottery ⓘ |
| usageType | rare given name ⓘ |
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: Potter Description of subject: Potter is a masculine given name most notably borne by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.