The Worst Witch
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The Worst Witch is a British children's fantasy franchise, best known as a series of novels by Jill Murphy about a clumsy young witch attending a magical boarding school.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Worst Witch canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5360835 — 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: The Worst Witch Context triple: [Felicity Jones, notableWork, The Worst Witch]
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A.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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B.
Matilda
Matilda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with strength and battle might and borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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D.
Matilda
Matilda is the middle name of Louisa Matilda Jacobs, an African American writer and activist and the daughter of abolitionist author Harriet Jacobs.
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E.
Matilda
Matilda is a 1996 family fantasy-comedy film, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, about a gifted young girl with telekinetic powers who stands up to her cruel parents and tyrannical school principal.
- 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: The Worst Witch Target entity description: The Worst Witch is a British children's fantasy franchise, best known as a series of novels by Jill Murphy about a clumsy young witch attending a magical boarding school.
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A.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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B.
Matilda
Matilda is the middle name of Louisa Matilda Jacobs, an African American writer and activist and the daughter of abolitionist author Harriet Jacobs.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is a 1996 family fantasy-comedy film, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, about a gifted young girl with telekinetic powers who stands up to her cruel parents and tyrannical school principal.
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D.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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E.
Matilda
Matilda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with strength and battle might and borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's book series
ⓘ
children's fantasy franchise ⓘ novel series ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The New Worst Witch
NERFINISHED
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The Worst Witch (1986 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch (1998 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch (2017 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weirdsister College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Jill Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| genre |
children's fantasy
ⓘ
school story ⓘ |
| hasPart |
A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch
NERFINISHED
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First Prize for the Worst Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch All at Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch Saves the Day NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch Strikes Again NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worst Witch to the Rescue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolHouseSystem | yes ⓘ |
| illustrator | Jill Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | The New Worst Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mildred Hubble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType |
film
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print ⓘ television ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Enid Nightshade
NERFINISHED
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Maud Spellbody NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Cackle NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Hardbroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalAudienceAgeRange | middle-grade readers ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | clumsy young witch ⓘ |
| publisher | Allison & Busby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolType | magical boarding school ⓘ |
| setting | Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
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friendship ⓘ self-acceptance ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFirstBook | 20th century ⓘ |
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: The Worst Witch Description of subject: The Worst Witch is a British children's fantasy franchise, best known as a series of novels by Jill Murphy about a clumsy young witch attending a magical boarding school.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.