Dolores Umbridge
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Dolores Umbridge is a high-ranking Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who becomes the tyrannical Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dolores Umbridge canonical | 9 |
| Dolores Umbridge (acting) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971673 — 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: Dolores Umbridge Context triple: [Sybill Trelawney, dismissedBy, Dolores Umbridge]
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Professor Sybill Trelawney
Professor Sybill Trelawney is the eccentric and often sherry-soaked Divination teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for her dramatic prophecies and questionable predictive abilities.
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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.
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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D.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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E.
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter is a prominent American publishing imprint known for its high-quality cookbooks, lifestyle, and design titles.
- 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: Dolores Umbridge Target entity description: Dolores Umbridge is a high-ranking Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who becomes the tyrannical Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Professor Sybill Trelawney
Professor Sybill Trelawney is the eccentric and often sherry-soaked Divination teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series, known for her dramatic prophecies and questionable predictive abilities.
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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.
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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D.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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E.
Emenius Sleepus
Emenius Sleepus is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their breakthrough 1994 album "Dookie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
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Hogwarts staff member ⓘ Ministry of Magic official ⓘ Witch ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Ministry of Magic ⓘ |
| alignment | Authoritarian ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
Harry Potter
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Order of the Phoenix ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⓘ Harry Potter novel series ⓘ
surface form:
Harry Potter series
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| arrestedBy | Centaur herd in the Forbidden Forest (temporarily) ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | Half-blood ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| employer |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Ministry of Magic ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⓘ |
| gender | Female ⓘ |
| hairColor | Brown ⓘ |
| house | Slytherin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cruel and sadistic disciplinary methods
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Enforcing Educational Decrees at Hogwarts ⓘ Persecution of Muggle-born witches and wizards ⓘ |
| laterFate | Imprisoned in Azkaban for crimes against Muggle-borns ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Herself
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Ministry of Magic ⓘ Ministry of Magic ⓘ
surface form:
Voldemort-controlled Ministry of Magic
|
| memberOf | Wizengamot ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
Defense Against the Dark Arts professor
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Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission ⓘ Hogwarts High Inquisitor ⓘ Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic ⓘ |
| officeDecor | Plates with moving kittens ⓘ |
| patronus | Persian cat ⓘ |
| petPreference | Cats ⓘ |
| politicalView | Pro-pure-blood supremacy ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Imelda Staunton ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission
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Headmistress of Hogwarts (de facto, briefly) ⓘ Hogwarts High Inquisitor ⓘ Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic ⓘ |
| schoolAttended | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ⓘ |
| signatureColor | Pink ⓘ |
| usesObject | Blood quill ⓘ |
| wandCore | Dragon heartstring ⓘ |
| wandLength | 8 inches ⓘ |
| wandWood | Birch ⓘ |
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: Dolores Umbridge Description of subject: Dolores Umbridge is a high-ranking Ministry of Magic bureaucrat who becomes the tyrannical Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sybill Trelawney
this entity surface form:
Dolores Umbridge (acting)
subject surface form:
Sybill Trelawney
subject surface form:
Sybill Trelawney