Tobias Snape
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Tobias Snape is the Muggle father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, depicted as a harsh and often abusive figure in his son's troubled childhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tobias Snape canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5183132 — 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: Tobias Snape Context triple: [Severus Snape, father, Tobias Snape]
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A.
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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B.
Teddy Lupin
Teddy Lupin is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, the Metamorphmagus son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks who is orphaned during the Battle of Hogwarts and later raised by his godfather Harry Potter.
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C.
Abraxas Malfoy
Abraxas Malfoy is a pure-blood wizard from the influential Malfoy family, known primarily as the father of Lucius Malfoy and a former patriarch of the family's aristocratic lineage.
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D.
Scorpius Malfoy
Scorpius Malfoy is the son of Draco Malfoy who becomes a central character in the later Harry Potter universe, particularly in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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E.
Snape
Snape is a small village in Suffolk, England, known for its historic Snape Maltings complex and annual Aldeburgh music festival events.
- 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: Tobias Snape Target entity description: Tobias Snape is the Muggle father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, depicted as a harsh and often abusive figure in his son's troubled childhood.
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A.
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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B.
Teddy Lupin
Teddy Lupin is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, the Metamorphmagus son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks who is orphaned during the Battle of Hogwarts and later raised by his godfather Harry Potter.
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C.
Abraxas Malfoy
Abraxas Malfoy is a pure-blood wizard from the influential Malfoy family, known primarily as the father of Lucius Malfoy and a former patriarch of the family's aristocratic lineage.
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D.
Scorpius Malfoy
Scorpius Malfoy is the son of Draco Malfoy who becomes a central character in the later Harry Potter universe, particularly in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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E.
Snape
Snape is a small village in Suffolk, England, known for its historic Snape Maltings complex and annual Aldeburgh music festival events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
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Human ⓘ Muggle ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⓘ Harry Potter series ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Potter novel series
|
| bloodStatus | Muggle ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | Book canon ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| familyName | Snape ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| hasChild | Severus Snape ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Eileen Snape ⓘ |
| householdType | Mixed Muggle–wizard family ⓘ |
| influences | Severus Snape's troubled childhood ⓘ |
| inUniverseStatus | Non-magical ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | Married ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (backstory)
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linked to:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | Factory worker ⓘ |
| parentOf | Severus Snape ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
Abusive
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Harsh ⓘ Neglectful father ⓘ |
| relationshipToEileenSnape | Husband ⓘ |
| relationshipToSeverusSnape | Father ⓘ |
| residesIn | Spinner's End ⓘ |
| seenIn | Severus Snape's memories ⓘ |
| treats |
Eileen Snape poorly
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Severus Snape harshly ⓘ |
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: Tobias Snape Description of subject: Tobias Snape is the Muggle father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, depicted as a harsh and often abusive figure in his son's troubled childhood.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.