Lily Potter
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Lily Potter is Harry Potter’s Muggle-born mother, remembered for sacrificing her life to protect him from Voldemort in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lily Potter canonical | 24 |
| Lily Evans | 4 |
| Lily Evans Potter | 1 |
| Lily J. Potter | 1 |
| evokes memories of Lily Potter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5111042 — 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: Lily Potter Context triple: [Dudley Dursley, relativeOf, Lily Potter]
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A.
Ariana Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore is the troubled younger sister of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, whose tragic life and death profoundly shape his character and past.
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B.
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger is a brilliant, studious, and resourceful young witch in the Harry Potter series, known for her intelligence, strong moral compass, and close friendship with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
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C.
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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D.
Jean Hermione Johnstone
Jean Hermione Johnstone was the mother of renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and was herself a musician and violinist.
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E.
Kendra Dumbledore
Kendra Dumbledore is a reclusive Muggle-born witch in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as the strict and secretive mother of Albus Dumbledore whose troubled family life shaped much of his early history.
- 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: Lily Potter Target entity description: Lily Potter is Harry Potter’s Muggle-born mother, remembered for sacrificing her life to protect him from Voldemort in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
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A.
Ariana Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore is the troubled younger sister of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, whose tragic life and death profoundly shape his character and past.
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B.
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger is a brilliant, studious, and resourceful young witch in the Harry Potter series, known for her intelligence, strong moral compass, and close friendship with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
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C.
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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D.
Jean Hermione Johnstone
Jean Hermione Johnstone was the mother of renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and was herself a musician and violinist.
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E.
Kendra Dumbledore
Kendra Dumbledore is a reclusive Muggle-born witch in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as the strict and secretive mother of Albus Dumbledore whose troubled family life shaped much of his early history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Lily Potter Description of subject: Lily Potter is Harry Potter’s Muggle-born mother, remembered for sacrificing her life to protect him from Voldemort in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Godric's Hollow (as infant)