Percival Dumbledore
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Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Percival Dumbledore canonical | 6 |
| Dumbledore | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016599 — 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: Percival Dumbledore Context triple: [Albus Dumbledore, father, Percival Dumbledore]
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A.
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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B.
Severus Snape
Severus Snape is a complex, morally ambiguous Hogwarts professor and skilled Potions master who plays a pivotal role throughout the Harry Potter series.
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C.
Kendra Dumbledore
Kendra Dumbledore is a reclusive Muggle-born witch in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as the strict and secretive mother of Albus Dumbledore whose troubled family life shaped much of his early history.
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D.
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid is the half-giant gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, known for his kindness, loyalty, and love of dangerous magical creatures in the Harry Potter series.
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E.
H. C. Potter
H. C. Potter was an American film director known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including several notable comedies and dramas.
- 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: Percival Dumbledore Target entity description: Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
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A.
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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B.
Severus Snape
Severus Snape is a complex, morally ambiguous Hogwarts professor and skilled Potions master who plays a pivotal role throughout the Harry Potter series.
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C.
Kendra Dumbledore
Kendra Dumbledore is a reclusive Muggle-born witch in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as the strict and secretive mother of Albus Dumbledore whose troubled family life shaped much of his early history.
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D.
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid is the half-giant gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, known for his kindness, loyalty, and love of dangerous magical creatures in the Harry Potter series.
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E.
H. C. Potter
H. C. Potter was an American film director known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including several notable comedies and dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Percival Dumbledore Description of subject: Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dumbledore