Wormtail
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Wormtail is the treacherous Animagus and former friend of James Potter who betrayed the Potters to Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wormtail canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128435 — 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: Wormtail Context triple: [Peter Pettigrew, nicknameGivenByMarauders, Wormtail]
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A.
Snape
Snape is a small village in Suffolk, England, known for its historic Snape Maltings complex and annual Aldeburgh music festival events.
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B.
Holdsclaw
Holdsclaw is the surname of Chamique Holdsclaw, a prominent former American professional basketball player and Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer.
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C.
Nigellus
Nigellus is a Latinized medieval given name that serves as the root form from which the modern English name Nigel developed.
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D.
Buckbeak
Buckbeak is a proud and temperamental hippogriff from the Harry Potter series, known for his pivotal role in Harry’s third year at Hogwarts and his dramatic rescue from execution.
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E.
Hermine
Hermine is the birth name of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and preserved her diary during World War II.
- 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: Wormtail Target entity description: Wormtail is the treacherous Animagus and former friend of James Potter who betrayed the Potters to Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Snape
Snape is a small village in Suffolk, England, known for its historic Snape Maltings complex and annual Aldeburgh music festival events.
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B.
Holdsclaw
Holdsclaw is the surname of Chamique Holdsclaw, a prominent former American professional basketball player and Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer.
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C.
Nigellus
Nigellus is a Latinized medieval given name that serves as the root form from which the modern English name Nigel developed.
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D.
Buckbeak
Buckbeak is a proud and temperamental hippogriff from the Harry Potter series, known for his pivotal role in Harry’s third year at Hogwarts and his dramatic rescue from execution.
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E.
Hermine
Hermine is the birth name of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and preserved her diary during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Animagus
ⓘ
Death Eater ⓘ fictional character ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| alias |
Scabbers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wormtail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| animagusForm | rat ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| betrayed |
James Potter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lily Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | wizard-born ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | strangled by his own silver hand ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedIn | Malfoy Manor cellar ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Harry Potter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Remus Lupin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fakedOwnDeath | true ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| framed | Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
James Potter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Remus Lupin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Peter Pettigrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| heldPrisoner | Bertha Jorkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| helpedRestoreBodyOf | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | Gryffindor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseAtHogwarts | Gryffindor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joined | Death Eaters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killed | twelve Muggles ⓘ |
| livedAsPetOf |
Percy Weasley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ron Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ Weasley family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalty | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MarauderMapName | Wormtail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Marauders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedRitual | rebirth of Voldemort ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Timothy Spall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedSilverHandFrom | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| registeredAnimagus | false ⓘ |
| revealedLocationOf | Potter family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sacrificedBodyPart | right hand ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secretKeeperFor | Potter family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| served | Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century Wizarding World ⓘ |
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: Wormtail Description of subject: Wormtail is the treacherous Animagus and former friend of James Potter who betrayed the Potters to Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.