Minerva McGonagall
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Minerva McGonagall is a stern yet fair witch who serves as Deputy Headmistress, Transfiguration professor, and Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minerva McGonagall canonical | 16 |
| Minerva McGonagall (acting) | 1 |
| Minerva McGonagall (film character) | 1 |
| Professor McGonagall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971590 — 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: Minerva McGonagall Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, character, Minerva McGonagall]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Dolores Umbridge
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Minerva McGonagall Target entity description: Minerva McGonagall is a stern yet fair witch who serves as Deputy Headmistress, Transfiguration professor, and Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Dolores Umbridge
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Minerva McGonagall Description of subject: Minerva McGonagall is a stern yet fair witch who serves as Deputy Headmistress, Transfiguration professor, and Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sybill Trelawney
this entity surface form:
Minerva McGonagall (film character)
this entity surface form:
Minerva McGonagall (acting)
this entity surface form:
Professor McGonagall