Gregory Goyle
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Gregory Goyle is a Slytherin student at Hogwarts and one of Draco Malfoy’s brutish, loyal cronies in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gregory Goyle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128483 — 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: Gregory Goyle Context triple: [Draco Malfoy, friend, Gregory Goyle]
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A.
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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B.
Scorpius Malfoy
Scorpius Malfoy is the son of Draco Malfoy who becomes a central character in the later Harry Potter universe, particularly in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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C.
Abraxas Malfoy
Abraxas Malfoy is a pure-blood wizard from the influential Malfoy family, known primarily as the father of Lucius Malfoy and a former patriarch of the family's aristocratic lineage.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Gregory Goyle Target entity description: Gregory Goyle is a Slytherin student at Hogwarts and one of Draco Malfoy’s brutish, loyal cronies in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
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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B.
Scorpius Malfoy
Scorpius Malfoy is the son of Draco Malfoy who becomes a central character in the later Harry Potter universe, particularly in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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C.
Abraxas Malfoy
Abraxas Malfoy is a pure-blood wizard from the influential Malfoy family, known primarily as the father of Lucius Malfoy and a former patriarch of the family's aristocratic lineage.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hogwarts student
ⓘ
Slytherin student ⓘ fictional character ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
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 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmSeries | Harry Potter film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Death Eaters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attendsClassWith |
Harry Potter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hermione Granger NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationLevel | Hogwarts secondary education ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Harry Potter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hermione Granger NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Weasley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Draco Malfoy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vincent Crabbe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| house | Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseFounder | Salazar Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseGhost | The Bloody Baron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseHeadDuringSchoolYears | Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lack of intelligence
ⓘ
physical strength ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Draco Malfoy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lord Voldemort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Slytherin Quidditch team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Battle of Hogwarts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Josh Herdman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInQuidditch | Beater ⓘ |
| role |
bully
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henchman ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| yearGroup | same year as Harry Potter ⓘ |
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: Gregory Goyle Description of subject: Gregory Goyle is a Slytherin student at Hogwarts and one of Draco Malfoy’s brutish, loyal cronies in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.