Walburga Black
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Walburga Black is a pure-blood witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the fanatically traditional and prejudiced matriarch of the Black family whose portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walburga Black canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110989 — 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: Walburga Black Context triple: [Sirius Black, mother, Walburga Black]
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A.
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange is a fanatically loyal Death Eater and one of Voldemort’s most sadistic and dangerous followers in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Bellatrix
Bellatrix is a prominent blue giant star in the constellation Orion, known as one of its brightest members.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Walburga Black Target entity description: Walburga Black is a pure-blood witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the fanatically traditional and prejudiced matriarch of the Black family whose portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place.
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A.
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange is a fanatically loyal Death Eater and one of Voldemort’s most sadistic and dangerous followers in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Bellatrix
Bellatrix is a prominent blue giant star in the constellation Orion, known as one of its brightest members.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Harry Potter character
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fictional character ⓘ pure-blood witch ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| appearsAs | magical portrait ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
NERFINISHED
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Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| burnedOffFamilyTapestry |
Andromeda Black
NERFINISHED
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Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
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fanatically traditional ⓘ intolerant ⓘ prejudiced ⓘ |
| child |
Regulus Black
NERFINISHED
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Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disowned |
Andromeda Black
NERFINISHED
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Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMottoAssociation | Toujours Pur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| houseAffiliation | Slytherin House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| householdRole | matriarch of the Black family ⓘ |
| ideology |
anti-Muggle-born prejudice
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pure-blood supremacy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
insulting visitors at 12 Grimmauld Place
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maintaining Black family purity ideology ⓘ screaming portrait ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | House of Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| opposes |
Muggle-borns
NERFINISHED
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Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ blood traitors ⓘ |
| portraitLocation |
12 Grimmauld Place
NERFINISHED
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Black family home ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | deceased prior to main events of the series ⓘ |
| relative |
Alphard Black
NERFINISHED
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Andromeda Tonks NERFINISHED ⓘ Bellatrix Lestrange NERFINISHED ⓘ Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesAt | 12 Grimmauld Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Orion Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
Death Eaters
NERFINISHED
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Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Walburga Black Description of subject: Walburga Black is a pure-blood witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the fanatically traditional and prejudiced matriarch of the Black family whose portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.