Fantastic Beasts film series
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The Fantastic Beasts film series is a prequel franchise set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World that follows magizoologist Newt Scamander and explores the rise of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald decades before the events of Harry Potter.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1747828 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Fantastic Beasts film series Context triple: [Harry Potter film series, hasSpinOffFranchise, Fantastic Beasts film series]
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Harry Potter film series
The Harry Potter film series is a blockbuster fantasy franchise of eight movies adapting J.K. Rowling’s novels about a young wizard and his battle against the dark lord Voldemort.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film in the Wizarding World franchise that continues the conflict between Albus Dumbledore and dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy film in the Wizarding World franchise that continues the prequel storyline to Harry Potter, focusing on dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald’s rise to power.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a young wizard who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and becomes famous for surviving an attack by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.
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Potter
Potter is a masculine given name most notably borne by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Fantastic Beasts film series Target entity description: The Fantastic Beasts film series is a prequel franchise set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World that follows magizoologist Newt Scamander and explores the rise of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald decades before the events of Harry Potter.
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Harry Potter film series
The Harry Potter film series is a blockbuster fantasy franchise of eight movies adapting J.K. Rowling’s novels about a young wizard and his battle against the dark lord Voldemort.
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B.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film in the Wizarding World franchise that continues the conflict between Albus Dumbledore and dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
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C.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy film in the Wizarding World franchise that continues the prequel storyline to Harry Potter, focusing on dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald’s rise to power.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a young wizard who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and becomes famous for surviving an attack by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.
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Potter
Potter is a masculine given name most notably borne by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Fantastic Beasts film series Description of subject: The Fantastic Beasts film series is a prequel franchise set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World that follows magizoologist Newt Scamander and explores the rise of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald decades before the events of Harry Potter.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fantastic Beasts
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Ukrainian Ironbelly
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film series, indirectly via bestiary)
this entity surface form:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them universe
this entity surface form:
Fantastic Beasts films
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Fantastic Beasts
Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards (implied from source material)
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Fantastic Beasts film series
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subject surface form:
Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards
this entity surface form:
Fantastic Beasts films (referenced via Grindelwald)
this entity surface form:
Fantastic Beasts