Regulus Arcturus Black
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Regulus Arcturus Black is a minor yet pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, a former Slytherin and Death Eater who ultimately defies Voldemort by attempting to destroy one of his Horcruxes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Regulus Black | 2 |
| Regulus Arcturus Black canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110991 — 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: Regulus Arcturus Black Context triple: [Sirius Black, brother, Regulus Arcturus Black]
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A.
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is a pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, known as Harry's wrongly imprisoned godfather and a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
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B.
Walburga Black
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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C.
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy is a pure-blood Slytherin student at Hogwarts known for his snobbish attitude, rivalry with Harry Potter, and eventual moral conflict as the series progresses.
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D.
Barty Crouch Jr.
Barty Crouch Jr. is a dark wizard and devoted Death Eater in the Harry Potter series, best known for impersonating Mad-Eye Moody to help Voldemort return to power.
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E.
Lucius Malfoy
Lucius Malfoy is a wealthy, pure-blood wizard and influential Death Eater from the Harry Potter series, known for his aristocratic arrogance, political manipulation, and allegiance to dark magic.
- 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: Regulus Arcturus Black Target entity description: Regulus Arcturus Black is a minor yet pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, a former Slytherin and Death Eater who ultimately defies Voldemort by attempting to destroy one of his Horcruxes.
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A.
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is a pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, known as Harry's wrongly imprisoned godfather and a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
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B.
Walburga Black
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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C.
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy is a pure-blood Slytherin student at Hogwarts known for his snobbish attitude, rivalry with Harry Potter, and eventual moral conflict as the series progresses.
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D.
Barty Crouch Jr.
Barty Crouch Jr. is a dark wizard and devoted Death Eater in the Harry Potter series, best known for impersonating Mad-Eye Moody to help Voldemort return to power.
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E.
Lucius Malfoy
Lucius Malfoy is a wealthy, pure-blood wizard and influential Death Eater from the Harry Potter series, known for his aristocratic arrogance, political manipulation, and allegiance to dark magic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
pure-blood wizard ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Death Eaters
NERFINISHED
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House-elf Kreacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | initially aligned with Voldemort ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter book series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attemptsToDestroy | Salazar Slytherin's locket Horcrux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| brother | Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | minor yet pivotal character in the Harry Potter series ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | Inferi attack in the Horcrux cave ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Horcrux cave by the underground lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defies | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesWhile | attempting to destroy Voldemort's Horcrux ⓘ |
| discovers | true nature of Voldemort's locket ⓘ |
| enemy | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Orion Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerAffiliation | Death Eaters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Regulus Arcturus Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Regulus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hogwartsHouse | Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseElf | Kreacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseTrait | valued pure-blood supremacy at first ⓘ |
| knownByInitials | R.A.B. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterAlignment | opposed to Voldemort ⓘ |
| leavesItem | fake locket with a note to Voldemort ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Kreacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Arcturus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Walburga Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| noteSignature | R.A.B. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orders | Kreacher to destroy the locket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Andromeda Tonks
NERFINISHED
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Bellatrix Lestrange NERFINISHED ⓘ Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Orion Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Walburga Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | 12 Grimmauld Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| undergoes | moral transformation after learning about Voldemort's cruelty ⓘ |
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: Regulus Arcturus Black Description of subject: Regulus Arcturus Black is a minor yet pivotal character in the Harry Potter series, a former Slytherin and Death Eater who ultimately defies Voldemort by attempting to destroy one of his Horcruxes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Regulus Black
this entity surface form:
Regulus Black