Merope Gaunt
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Merope Gaunt is a tragic witch from the Harry Potter series, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin whose unhappy life and use of a love potion to ensnare Tom Riddle Sr. ultimately led to the birth of Lord Voldemort.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merope Gaunt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5111659 — 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: Merope Gaunt Context triple: [Lord Voldemort, mother, Merope Gaunt]
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A.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Ariana Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore is the troubled younger sister of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, whose tragic life and death profoundly shape his character and past.
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C.
Cassandra Trelawney
Cassandra Trelawney is a witch in the Harry Potter universe known as the gifted Seer ancestor of Professor Sybill Trelawney.
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D.
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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E.
Mercy Dudley
Mercy Dudley was a daughter of Thomas Dudley, the colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of a prominent early New England Puritan family.
- 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: Merope Gaunt Target entity description: Merope Gaunt is a tragic witch from the Harry Potter series, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin whose unhappy life and use of a love potion to ensnare Tom Riddle Sr. ultimately led to the birth of Lord Voldemort.
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A.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Ariana Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore is the troubled younger sister of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, whose tragic life and death profoundly shape his character and past.
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C.
Cassandra Trelawney
Cassandra Trelawney is a witch in the Harry Potter universe known as the gifted Seer ancestor of Professor Sybill Trelawney.
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D.
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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E.
Mercy Dudley
Mercy Dudley was a daughter of Thomas Dudley, the colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of a prominent early New England Puritan family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
pure-blood witch ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| ability | Parseltongue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ancestorHouse | Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMemoryOf |
Bob Ogden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Caractacus Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | childbirth complications ⓘ |
| childOf | Marvolo Gaunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| descendantOf |
Cadmus Peverell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Salazar Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedAfterGivingBirthTo | Tom Marvolo Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedAt | orphanage in London ⓘ |
| diedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | wizarding pure-blood family ⓘ |
| familyName | Gaunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstMentionedIn | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| houseAffiliation | Slytherin family line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| household | Gaunt shack near Little Hangleton ⓘ |
| houseLineage | Slytherin-Gaunt line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Parseltongue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loves | Tom Riddle Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Lord Voldemort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Marvolo Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being mother of Lord Voldemort
ⓘ
using a love potion to create a forced relationship ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | tragic character ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gaunt family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riddle family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Gaunt shack
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Hangleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Morfin Gaunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sold | Slytherin's locket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soldAt | Borgin and Burkes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soldTo | Caractacus Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Tom Riddle Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universe | Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| used | love potion ⓘ |
| usedOn | Tom Riddle Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOf |
abuse by Marvolo Gaunt
ⓘ
abuse by Morfin Gaunt ⓘ |
| wandOwnership | Gaunt family wand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Merope Gaunt Description of subject: Merope Gaunt is a tragic witch from the Harry Potter series, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin whose unhappy life and use of a love potion to ensnare Tom Riddle Sr. ultimately led to the birth of Lord Voldemort.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Parseltongue