Portrait of the Fat Lady
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Portrait of the Fat Lady is a magical talking painting in the Harry Potter series that serves as the guardian and gatekeeper to Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portrait of the Fat Lady canonical | 1 |
| The Fat Lady | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13473408 — 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: Portrait of the Fat Lady Context triple: [Gryffindor House, commonRoomEntrance, Portrait of the Fat Lady]
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A.
Potter to Her Majesty
Potter to Her Majesty is an honorary royal warrant-style designation granted to a distinguished ceramics manufacturer serving the British monarch.
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B.
Room on the Broom
Room on the Broom is a popular animated short film adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s children’s book, known for its charming storytelling and distinctive animation style.
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C.
The Four Poster
The Four Poster is a 1952 American comedy-drama film, adapted from Jan de Hartog’s play, that chronicles a married couple’s life over several decades, notably featuring actress Lilli Palmer.
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D.
A Behanding in Spokane
A Behanding in Spokane is a dark comedy play by Martin McDonagh that follows a one-handed man's violent, absurd quest to recover his missing hand in a seedy small-town hotel.
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E.
Flight of the Hippogriff
Flight of the Hippogriff is a family-friendly outdoor roller coaster in Universal’s Harry Potter-themed areas, themed around Hagrid’s care of magical creatures and designed as a training flight over his hut and pumpkin patch.
- 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: Portrait of the Fat Lady Target entity description: Portrait of the Fat Lady is a magical talking painting in the Harry Potter series that serves as the guardian and gatekeeper to Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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A.
Potter to Her Majesty
Potter to Her Majesty is an honorary royal warrant-style designation granted to a distinguished ceramics manufacturer serving the British monarch.
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B.
Room on the Broom
Room on the Broom is a popular animated short film adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s children’s book, known for its charming storytelling and distinctive animation style.
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C.
The Four Poster
The Four Poster is a 1952 American comedy-drama film, adapted from Jan de Hartog’s play, that chronicles a married couple’s life over several decades, notably featuring actress Lilli Palmer.
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D.
A Behanding in Spokane
A Behanding in Spokane is a dark comedy play by Martin McDonagh that follows a one-handed man's violent, absurd quest to recover his missing hand in a seedy small-town hotel.
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E.
Flight of the Hippogriff
Flight of the Hippogriff is a family-friendly outdoor roller coaster in Universal’s Harry Potter-themed areas, themed around Hagrid’s care of magical creatures and designed as a training flight over his hut and pumpkin patch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional object
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gatekeeper ⓘ guardian ⓘ magical painting ⓘ talking portrait ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
NERFINISHED
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ⓘ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmAdaptation | Harry Potter film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithHouse | Gryffindor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Fictional paintings
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Harry Potter characters ⓘ Magical objects in Harry Potter ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | magical ⓘ |
| function | security measure for Gryffindor Tower ⓘ |
| guards |
Gryffindor Tower
NERFINISHED
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Gryffindor common room entrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
movement between frames
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speech ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dramatic
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easily offended ⓘ temperamental ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Fat Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Harry Potter
NERFINISHED
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Hermione Granger NERFINISHED ⓘ Neville Longbottom NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English (in dialogue) ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | oil painting (in-universe implication) ⓘ |
| partOf | Hogwarts portraits ⓘ |
| requires | password for entry ⓘ |
| roleInStory | controls access to Gryffindor common room ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Hogwarts castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speaksTo | Gryffindor students ⓘ |
| universe | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Portrait of the Fat Lady Description of subject: Portrait of the Fat Lady is a magical talking painting in the Harry Potter series that serves as the guardian and gatekeeper to Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Fat Lady