Puking Pastilles
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Puking Pastilles are a magical joke sweet from the Harry Potter series that makes the eater violently vomit to fake illness and then quickly recover.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puking Pastilles canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072587 — 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: Puking Pastilles Context triple: [Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, knownFor, Puking Pastilles]
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A.
Pennard Pill
Pennard Pill is a small tidal stream and valley on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, known for winding through dunes and salt marshes before reaching the sea at Three Cliffs Bay.
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B.
Acid Candy
Acid Candy is a vivid, hyper-stylized photographic series by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, known for its saturated colors and surreal, cinematic depictions of women and domestic scenes.
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C.
Medicine Jar
"Medicine Jar" is a rock song by Paul McCartney & Wings, featured on their 1975 album *Venus and Mars* and known for being written and sung by guitarist Jimmy McCulloch.
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D.
Pille
Pille is the talking football character that served as the sidekick to Goleo VI, the official mascot of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
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E.
Panacea
Panacea is the Greek goddess of universal remedy and healing, associated with cures for all diseases.
- 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: Puking Pastilles Target entity description: Puking Pastilles are a magical joke sweet from the Harry Potter series that makes the eater violently vomit to fake illness and then quickly recover.
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A.
Pennard Pill
Pennard Pill is a small tidal stream and valley on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, known for winding through dunes and salt marshes before reaching the sea at Three Cliffs Bay.
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B.
Acid Candy
Acid Candy is a vivid, hyper-stylized photographic series by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, known for its saturated colors and surreal, cinematic depictions of women and domestic scenes.
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C.
Medicine Jar
"Medicine Jar" is a rock song by Paul McCartney & Wings, featured on their 1975 album *Venus and Mars* and known for being written and sung by guitarist Jimmy McCulloch.
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D.
Pille
Pille is the talking football character that served as the sidekick to Goleo VI, the official mascot of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
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E.
Panacea
Panacea is the Greek goddess of universal remedy and healing, associated with cures for all diseases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Skiving Snackbox item
ⓘ
joke product ⓘ magical sweet ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
confectionery in Harry Potter universe
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wizarding joke product ⓘ |
| color |
orange
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Fred Weasley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorUniverse | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstIntroducedIn | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
orange half that induces vomiting
ⓘ
purple half that stops vomiting ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
allows eater to fake illness
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allows quick recovery after full sweet is eaten ⓘ causes temporary sickness ⓘ induces violent vomiting ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | to deceive authority figures about illness ⓘ |
| hasSideEffect | mess and discomfort from vomiting ⓘ |
| inUniverseLocationSold | Diagon Alley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFictional | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| marketedTo | Hogwarts students ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Weasley family business NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Skiving Snackbox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
eating orange half to start vomiting
ⓘ
eating purple half to end vomiting ⓘ |
| soldBy | Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| target | teachers at Hogwarts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
practical jokes
ⓘ
skiving off classes ⓘ |
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: Puking Pastilles Description of subject: Puking Pastilles are a magical joke sweet from the Harry Potter series that makes the eater violently vomit to fake illness and then quickly recover.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.