Orion Black
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Orion Black is a minor Harry Potter character, a pure-blood wizard from the aristocratic Black family and the strict, traditionalist father of Sirius Black.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orion Black canonical | 2 |
| Cygnus Black | 1 |
| Cygnus Black III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110990 — 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: Orion Black Context triple: [Sirius Black, father, Orion Black]
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A.
Orion Dash
Orion Dash is a digital-first imprint of the Orion Publishing Group that focuses on commercial fiction and genre titles.
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B.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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C.
Orion
Orion is a coastal municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines, known for its historical significance and proximity to Manila Bay.
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D.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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E.
Antares
Antares is a bright red supergiant star, one of the largest and most luminous visible to the naked eye, located in the constellation Scorpius.
- 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: Orion Black Target entity description: Orion Black is a minor Harry Potter character, a pure-blood wizard from the aristocratic Black family and the strict, traditionalist father of Sirius Black.
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A.
Orion Dash
Orion Dash is a digital-first imprint of the Orion Publishing Group that focuses on commercial fiction and genre titles.
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B.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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C.
Orion
Orion is a coastal municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines, known for its historical significance and proximity to Manila Bay.
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D.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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E.
Antares
Antares is a bright red supergiant star, one of the largest and most luminous visible to the naked eye, located in the constellation Scorpius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
pure-blood wizard ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| citizenship | Wizarding Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathBefore | First Wizarding War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disapprovesOf | Sirius Black’s rejection of pure-blood values ⓘ |
| familyName | Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Pollux Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Regulus Black
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| house | Black family home at 12 Grimmauld Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | pure-blood supremacy ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Black family tapestry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Hesper Gamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
strict
ⓘ
traditionalist ⓘ |
| relative |
Alphard Black
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andromeda Tonks NERFINISHED ⓘ Arcturus Black III NERFINISHED ⓘ Bellatrix Lestrange NERFINISHED ⓘ Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Walburga Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Walburga Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
| supports | Voldemort’s ideology ⓘ |
| universe | Harry Potter universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| upholds | Black family traditions ⓘ |
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: Orion Black Description of subject: Orion Black is a minor Harry Potter character, a pure-blood wizard from the aristocratic Black family and the strict, traditionalist father of Sirius Black.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cygnus Black III
this entity surface form:
Cygnus Black