Horace Slughorn
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Horace Slughorn is a fictional Hogwarts Potions Master and Slytherin Head of House in the Harry Potter series, known for his talent, vanity, and habit of cultivating influential students.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Horace Slughorn canonical | 12 |
| Professor Horace Slughorn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4174937 — 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: Horace Slughorn Context triple: [Jim Broadbent, notableRole, Horace Slughorn]
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A.
Professor Filius Flitwick
Professor Filius Flitwick is the diminutive, cheerful Charms Master and Head of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Percival Dumbledore
Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
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C.
Aberforth Dumbledore
Aberforth Dumbledore is a gruff but loyal wizard who runs the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade and plays a key supporting role in the later events of the Harry Potter series.
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D.
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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E.
Argus Filch
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.
- 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: Horace Slughorn Target entity description: Horace Slughorn is a fictional Hogwarts Potions Master and Slytherin Head of House in the Harry Potter series, known for his talent, vanity, and habit of cultivating influential students.
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A.
Professor Filius Flitwick
Professor Filius Flitwick is the diminutive, cheerful Charms Master and Head of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Percival Dumbledore
Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
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C.
Aberforth Dumbledore
Aberforth Dumbledore is a gruff but loyal wizard who runs the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade and plays a key supporting role in the later events of the Harry Potter series.
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D.
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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E.
Argus Filch
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: Horace Slughorn Description of subject: Horace Slughorn is a fictional Hogwarts Potions Master and Slytherin Head of House in the Harry Potter series, known for his talent, vanity, and habit of cultivating influential students.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.