Eileen Prince
E525629
Eileen Prince is a witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the pure-blood mother of Severus Snape who married the Muggle Tobias Snape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eileen Prince canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5183131 — 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: Eileen Prince Context triple: [Severus Snape, mother, Eileen Prince]
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A.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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B.
Eileen Sherwood
Eileen Sherwood is a central character in the musical "Wonderful Town," portrayed as a charming, aspiring actress who moves to New York City with her sister to pursue her dreams.
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C.
Elisabeth Scott
Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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D.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
- 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: Eileen Prince Target entity description: Eileen Prince is a witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the pure-blood mother of Severus Snape who married the Muggle Tobias Snape.
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A.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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B.
Eileen Sherwood
Eileen Sherwood is a central character in the musical "Wonderful Town," portrayed as a charming, aspiring actress who moves to New York City with her sister to pursue her dreams.
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C.
Elisabeth Scott
Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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D.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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pure-blood witch ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| appearanceIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInBackstoryOf | Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | Cokeworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodPurityViewContext | from a pure-blood family that married a Muggle ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canon ⓘ |
| child | Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childhoodHomeOf | Severus Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family |
Prince family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Snape family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fate | deceased ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| houseAffiliation | Slytherin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseTraitAssociation | Slytherin lineage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being Severus Snape's mother
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marrying a Muggle ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWork | English ⓘ |
| maidenFamilyStatus | pure-blood family ⓘ |
| maritalStatus |
abusive marriage
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married ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| mentionedAs |
Eileen Prince
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eileen Prince Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | witch ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | unknown (off-screen character) ⓘ |
| relationshipToSeverusSnape | mother ⓘ |
| relationshipToTobiasSnape | wife ⓘ |
| residence | Spinner's End NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolAttended | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| spouse | Tobias Snape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseType | Muggle ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| universe | Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOfFiction | Harry Potter series 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: Eileen Prince Description of subject: Eileen Prince is a witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the pure-blood mother of Severus Snape who married the Muggle Tobias Snape.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.