James Potter
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James Potter is a brave and mischievous wizard from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s father and a member of the original Order of the Phoenix.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Potter canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110996 — 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: James Potter Context triple: [Sirius Black, bestFriend, James Potter]
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A.
H. C. Potter
H. C. Potter was an American film director known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including several notable comedies and dramas.
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B.
Oliver Wood
Oliver Wood was a British-American cinematographer best known for his dynamic, handheld visual style in action films such as the Bourne series.
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C.
Percival Dumbledore
Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
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D.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
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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: James Potter Target entity description: James Potter is a brave and mischievous wizard from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s father and a member of the original Order of the Phoenix.
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A.
H. C. Potter
H. C. Potter was an American film director known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, including several notable comedies and dramas.
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B.
Oliver Wood
Oliver Wood was a British-American cinematographer best known for his dynamic, handheld visual style in action films such as the Bourne series.
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C.
Percival Dumbledore
Percival Dumbledore is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, known primarily as Albus Dumbledore’s father who was imprisoned in Azkaban for attacking Muggle boys who harmed his daughter.
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D.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is a loyal and often humorous Gryffindor wizard who is Harry Potter’s best friend and a key member of the trio in the Harry Potter series.
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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gryffindor student
ⓘ
Order of the Phoenix member ⓘ fictional character ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| animagusForm | stag ⓘ |
| animagusType | unregistered Animagus ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attended | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| child | Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | murdered by Lord Voldemort ⓘ |
| deathLocation | Godric's Hollow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy |
Lord Voldemort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Fleamont Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friend |
Peter Pettigrew
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Remus Lupin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| groupNickname | Marauders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | Gryffindor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseTeam | Gryffindor Quidditch team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bravery
ⓘ
bullying Severus Snape at school ⓘ mischief ⓘ sacrificing his life to protect his family ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Dumbledore's Army allies (original Order)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Marauders
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Euphemia Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nickname | Prongs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | wizard ⓘ |
| patronusForm | stag ⓘ |
| position | Chaser ⓘ |
| residence | Godric's Hollow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| spouse | Lily Potter 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: James Potter Description of subject: James Potter is a brave and mischievous wizard from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s father and a member of the original Order of the Phoenix.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.