Tom Riddle Sr.
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Tom Riddle Sr. was a wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton who was deceived into a relationship with Merope Gaunt and became the unwilling father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Riddle Sr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5111660 — 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: Tom Riddle Sr. Context triple: [Lord Voldemort, father, Tom Riddle Sr.]
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A.
Barty Crouch Sr.
Barty Crouch Sr. is a strict, high-ranking Ministry of Magic official whose rigid pursuit of law and order plays a pivotal role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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B.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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C.
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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D.
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tom Riddle Sr. Target entity description: Tom Riddle Sr. was a wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton who was deceived into a relationship with Merope Gaunt and became the unwilling father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
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A.
Barty Crouch Sr.
Barty Crouch Sr. is a strict, high-ranking Ministry of Magic official whose rigid pursuit of law and order plays a pivotal role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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B.
Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald is a powerful dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe, known as one of the most dangerous antagonists before Voldemort and central to the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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C.
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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D.
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the Harry Potter series, a dark wizard obsessed with power and immortality who leads the Death Eaters and seeks to dominate the wizarding world.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muggle
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | Harry Potter film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | Muggle-born ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder ⓘ |
| coercedBy | love potion ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathLocation | Little Hangleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Riddle House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deceivedBy | Merope Gaunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Tom Riddle Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandparentOf | Delphini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Mary Riddle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| household | Riddle House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Lord Voldemort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Marvolo Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Lord Voldemort ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | Avada Kedavra ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Lord Voldemort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Marvolo Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithMeropeGaunt | coerced relationship ⓘ |
| relationshipWithMagic | non-magical ⓘ |
| residence | Little Hangleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residenceType | manor house ⓘ |
| roleInStory | background character ⓘ |
| significance | ancestor of the main antagonist ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse | Merope Gaunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unwillingParentOf |
Lord Voldemort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Marvolo Riddle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| village | Little Hangleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wealthStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| world | Wizarding World 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: Tom Riddle Sr. Description of subject: Tom Riddle Sr. was a wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton who was deceived into a relationship with Merope Gaunt and became the unwilling father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.