Lord Voldemort
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Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Voldemort canonical | 50 |
| Tom Riddle | 11 |
| Tom Marvolo Riddle | 3 |
| He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named | 1 |
| Lord Voldemort (character) | 1 |
| Lord Voldemort (film character) | 1 |
| Lord Voldemort (indirectly) | 1 |
| Lord Voldemort and his followers | 1 |
| Voldemort | 1 |
| You-Know-Who | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971661 — 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: Lord Voldemort Context triple: [Sybill Trelawney, makesProphecyAbout, Lord Voldemort]
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A.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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B.
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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C.
Robert Black
Robert Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and law.
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D.
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter is a prominent American publishing imprint known for its high-quality cookbooks, lifestyle, and design titles.
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E.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
- 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: Lord Voldemort Target entity description: Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
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A.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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B.
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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C.
Robert Black
Robert Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and law.
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D.
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter is a prominent American publishing imprint known for its high-quality cookbooks, lifestyle, and design titles.
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E.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
dark wizard ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alias |
Lord Voldemort
ⓘ
surface form:
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
The Dark Lord ⓘ Lord Voldemort ⓘ
surface form:
You-Know-Who
|
| ancestry | descendant of Salazar Slytherin ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Harry Potter ⓘ |
| birthName |
Lord Voldemort
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tom Marvolo Riddle
|
| birthPlace |
Stockwell Orphanage
ⓘ
surface form:
Wool's Orphanage, London
|
| bloodStatus | half-blood ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| creates |
Horcrux
ⓘ
surface form:
Horcruxes
|
| death | killed during the Battle of Hogwarts ⓘ |
| enemy |
Albus Dumbledore
ⓘ
Harry Potter ⓘ Order of the Phoenix ⓘ |
| father | Tom Riddle Sr. ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
|
| fullName |
Lord Voldemort
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tom Marvolo Riddle
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
domination of the wizarding world
ⓘ
immortality ⓘ |
| grandfather | Marvolo Gaunt ⓘ |
| horcrux |
Helga Hufflepuff's cup
ⓘ
Marvolo Gaunt's ring ⓘ Nagini ⓘ Ravenclaw’s diadem ⓘ
surface form:
Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem
Salazar Slytherin's locket ⓘ Tom Riddle's diary ⓘ fragment in Harry Potter ⓘ |
| houseAtHogwarts | Slytherin ⓘ |
| killedBy | rebounds of his own Killing Curse ⓘ |
| languageAbility |
Parseltongue (understands)
ⓘ
surface form:
Parseltongue
|
| leads | Death Eaters ⓘ |
| loyalFollower |
Bellatrix Lestrange
ⓘ
Lucius Malfoy ⓘ Severus Snape ⓘ
surface form:
Severus Snape (ostensibly)
|
| mother | Merope Gaunt ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
attempted to kill infant Harry Potter
ⓘ
murdered James and Lily Potter ⓘ returned to physical form in the Little Hangleton graveyard ⓘ |
| numberOfHorcruxes | seven (intended) ⓘ |
| primaryRole | primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ⓘ |
| signatureSpell | Avada Kedavra ⓘ |
| species | human (wizard) ⓘ |
| usesMagicType | Dark Arts ⓘ |
| wandCore | phoenix feather ⓘ |
| wandLength | 13½ inches ⓘ |
| wandWood | yew ⓘ |
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: Lord Voldemort Description of subject: Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
Referenced by (71)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lord Voldemort (character)
this entity surface form:
Tom Riddle
subject surface form:
Parseltongue
this entity surface form:
Tom Riddle
subject surface form:
Parseltongue
this entity surface form:
Tom Riddle