Spinner's End
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Spinner's End is a bleak, industrial street in a rundown mill town that serves as Severus Snape’s grim childhood home in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spinner's End canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5183133 — 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: Spinner's End Context triple: [Severus Snape, childhoodResidence, Spinner's End]
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A.
The Wheel Spins
The Wheel Spins is a 1936 mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, best known as the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes.
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B.
Sparkle and Spin
Sparkle and Spin is a mid-20th-century children’s picture book known for its playful exploration of words and typography, created by writer Ann Rand with distinctive modernist illustrations.
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C.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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D.
The Finale
"The Finale" is the two-part series finale of the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, concluding the stories of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer in a controversial courtroom-themed episode.
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E.
Stories Don’t End
Stories Don’t End is a 2013 folk-rock album by American band Dawes, noted for its introspective songwriting and warm, Laurel Canyon-inspired sound.
- 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: Spinner's End Target entity description: Spinner's End is a bleak, industrial street in a rundown mill town that serves as Severus Snape’s grim childhood home in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
The Wheel Spins
The Wheel Spins is a 1936 mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, best known as the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes.
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B.
Sparkle and Spin
Sparkle and Spin is a mid-20th-century children’s picture book known for its playful exploration of words and typography, created by writer Ann Rand with distinctive modernist illustrations.
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C.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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D.
The Finale
"The Finale" is the two-part series finale of the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, concluding the stories of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer in a controversial courtroom-themed episode.
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E.
Stories Don’t End
Stories Don’t End is a 2013 folk-rock album by American band Dawes, noted for its introspective songwriting and warm, Laurel Canyon-inspired sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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street ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithHousehold | Snape family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublicationContext | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bleak
ⓘ
industrial ⓘ rundown ⓘ |
| hasAtmosphere |
depressing
ⓘ
gloomy ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | row houses ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | fantasy literature setting ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
location for making the Unbreakable Vow
ⓘ
reveals aspects of Snape's background ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
factory chimneys
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident |
Eileen Snape
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobias Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isChildhoodHomeOf |
Eileen Snape
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobias Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | unnamed industrial mill town ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| ownedByInCanon | Snape family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingForEvent | Unbreakable Vow between Severus Snape and Narcissa Malfoy ⓘ |
| settingForSceneWith |
Bellatrix Lestrange
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfDepiction |
1970s (Snape's childhood)
ⓘ
1996 (events of Half-Blood Prince) ⓘ |
| usedAs |
symbol of Snape's impoverished upbringing
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symbol of industrial decay ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Bellatrix Lestrange
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Severus Snape 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: Spinner's End Description of subject: Spinner's End is a bleak, industrial street in a rundown mill town that serves as Severus Snape’s grim childhood home in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.