Dursley family (Harry Potter film series)
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The Dursley family in the Harry Potter film series is Harry Potter’s unpleasant Muggle relatives, known for their suburban respectability, materialism, and mistreatment of him while he lives at their home on Privet Drive.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dursley family | 1 |
| Dursley family (Harry Potter film series) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423119 — 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: Dursley family (Harry Potter film series) Context triple: [Uncle Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series), family, Dursley family (Harry Potter film series)]
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A.
Dudley family
The Dudley family is a prominent English noble lineage historically influential in Tudor politics and court affairs.
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B.
Wilf family
The Wilf family is a prominent American real estate and business family best known for owning the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings.
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C.
Horton family
The Horton family is the central, multigenerational core family around which many of the major storylines on the long-running soap opera "Days of Our Lives" revolve.
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D.
Crawley family
The Crawley family is the aristocratic household at the center of the British period drama "Downton Abbey," around whom the series’ social, political, and personal storylines revolve.
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E.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
- 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: Dursley family (Harry Potter film series) Target entity description: The Dursley family in the Harry Potter film series is Harry Potter’s unpleasant Muggle relatives, known for their suburban respectability, materialism, and mistreatment of him while he lives at their home on Privet Drive.
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A.
Dudley family
The Dudley family is a prominent English noble lineage historically influential in Tudor politics and court affairs.
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B.
Wilf family
The Wilf family is a prominent American real estate and business family best known for owning the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings.
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C.
Horton family
The Horton family is the central, multigenerational core family around which many of the major storylines on the long-running soap opera "Days of Our Lives" revolve.
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D.
Crawley family
The Crawley family is the aristocratic household at the center of the British period drama "Downton Abbey," around whom the series’ social, political, and personal storylines revolve.
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E.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character group
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fictional family ⓘ |
| antagonisticTo | Harry Potter (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
NERFINISHED
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | cupboard under the stairs (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardMagic |
fearful
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hostile ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dursley family (Harry Potter book series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fandom | Harry Potter franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationBy | Warner Bros. Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy film ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Harry Potter (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| householdMembers |
Dudley Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
NERFINISHED
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Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
materialism
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mistreating Harry Potter ⓘ suburban respectability ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic relief
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early antagonists ⓘ symbol of Muggle normality ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableMembers |
Dudley Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
NERFINISHED
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Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | prejudiced against magic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
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Harry Melling as Dudley Dursley ⓘ Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley ⓘ |
| relationshipToHarry |
legal guardians in childhood
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maternal relatives ⓘ |
| residence | 4 Privet Drive (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Little Whinging, Surrey (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | middle class ⓘ |
| species | Muggles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 1990s–1998 (within film continuity) ⓘ |
| ward | Harry Potter (Harry Potter film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wardSleepingPlace | cupboard under the stairs (early films) ⓘ |
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: Dursley family (Harry Potter film series) Description of subject: The Dursley family in the Harry Potter film series is Harry Potter’s unpleasant Muggle relatives, known for their suburban respectability, materialism, and mistreatment of him while he lives at their home on Privet Drive.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film series
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family
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Dursley family (Harry Potter film series)
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subject surface form:
Uncle Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter film series)
this entity surface form:
Dursley family