Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
E417886
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is the ghost of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series, known for his nearly severed head and somewhat pompous, courtly manner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4170314 — 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: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington Context triple: [Nearly Headless Nick, fullName, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington]
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Sir George Treby
Sir George Treby was a British politician and public official who rose to prominence in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notably serving in senior governmental and naval administrative roles.
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B.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Harry Coningsby
Harry Coningsby is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," whose development reflects the social and political transformations of early Victorian England.
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D.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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E.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley was a flamboyant British financier, journalist, and politician notorious for his role in major financial scandals in the early 20th century.
- 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: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington Target entity description: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is the ghost of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series, known for his nearly severed head and somewhat pompous, courtly manner.
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A.
Sir George Treby
Sir George Treby was a British politician and public official who rose to prominence in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notably serving in senior governmental and naval administrative roles.
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B.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Harry Coningsby
Harry Coningsby is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," whose development reflects the social and political transformations of early Victorian England.
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D.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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E.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley was a flamboyant British financier, journalist, and politician notorious for his role in major financial scandals in the early 20th century.
- 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: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington Description of subject: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is the ghost of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series, known for his nearly severed head and somewhat pompous, courtly manner.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.