Peeves the Poltergeist
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Peeves the Poltergeist is a mischievous and chaotic spirit at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry known for playing pranks and causing trouble for students and staff alike.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peeves the Poltergeist canonical | 2 |
| Peeves | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5269215 — 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: Peeves the Poltergeist Context triple: [Argus Filch, dislikes, Peeves the Poltergeist]
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Mundungus Fletcher
Mundungus Fletcher is a shifty, small-time crook and Order of the Phoenix member in the Harry Potter series, known for his dodgy dealings and questionable reliability.
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C.
Dobby
Dobby is a loyal and selfless house-elf in the Harry Potter series who becomes a beloved ally to Harry through his acts of courage and sacrifice.
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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.
Argus Filch
Argus Filch is the cantankerous, magic-less caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, known for his strictness and dislike of students in the 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: Peeves the Poltergeist Target entity description: Peeves the Poltergeist is a mischievous and chaotic spirit at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry known for playing pranks and causing trouble for students and staff alike.
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Mundungus Fletcher
Mundungus Fletcher is a shifty, small-time crook and Order of the Phoenix member in the Harry Potter series, known for his dodgy dealings and questionable reliability.
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C.
Dobby
Dobby is a loyal and selfless house-elf in the Harry Potter series who becomes a beloved ally to Harry through his acts of courage and sacrifice.
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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.
Argus Filch
Argus Filch is the cantankerous, magic-less caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, known for his strictness and dislike of students in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Harry Potter character
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fictional character ⓘ ghost-like entity ⓘ poltergeist ⓘ spirit ⓘ |
| alignment | chaotic ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
NERFINISHED
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter book series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canBeControlledBy | the Bloody Baron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Argus Filch
NERFINISHED
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Dolores Umbridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fears | the Bloody Baron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| helps | Fred and George Weasley during their departure from Hogwarts ⓘ |
| inhabits | Hogwarts Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Fred Weasley
NERFINISHED
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George Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ Minerva McGonagall NERFINISHED ⓘ Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
causing chaos
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disrupting classes ⓘ mischief ⓘ playing pranks ⓘ tormenting staff ⓘ tormenting students ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Hogwarts during the Battle of Hogwarts
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himself ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| notableAction |
causes mayhem during exams
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drops water balloons on students ⓘ sings rude songs ⓘ throws objects in corridors ⓘ |
| oftenHarasses |
Hogwarts staff
NERFINISHED
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first-year students ⓘ |
| residesAt | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | poltergeist ⓘ |
| supports | Hogwarts students' rebellion against Dolores Umbridge ⓘ |
| takesPartIn | Battle of Hogwarts 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: Peeves the Poltergeist Description of subject: Peeves the Poltergeist is a mischievous and chaotic spirit at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry known for playing pranks and causing trouble for students and staff alike.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peeves