Theseus Scamander
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Theseus Scamander is a British Auror and war hero in the Wizarding World, best known as Newt Scamander’s older brother in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theseus Scamander canonical | 3 |
| Scamander | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6028164 — 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: Theseus Scamander Context triple: [Callum Turner, portrayed, Theseus Scamander]
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A.
Newt Scamander
Newt Scamander is a magizoologist and the central protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts film series within J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.
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B.
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Kingsley Shacklebolt is a highly skilled Auror and later Minister for Magic in the Harry Potter series, known for his calm authority, loyalty to the Order of the Phoenix, and role in rebuilding the wizarding world after Voldemort’s defeat.
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C.
Mad-Eye Moody
Mad-Eye Moody is a grizzled, paranoid former Auror from the Harry Potter series, famed for his magical prosthetic eye and constant vigilance against dark wizards.
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D.
Teddy Lupin
Teddy Lupin is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, the Metamorphmagus son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks who is orphaned during the Battle of Hogwarts and later raised by his godfather Harry Potter.
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E.
Gilderoy Lockhart
Gilderoy Lockhart is a vain, self-absorbed wizard and celebrity author who briefly serves as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts 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: Theseus Scamander Target entity description: Theseus Scamander is a British Auror and war hero in the Wizarding World, best known as Newt Scamander’s older brother in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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A.
Newt Scamander
Newt Scamander is a magizoologist and the central protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts film series within J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.
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B.
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Kingsley Shacklebolt is a highly skilled Auror and later Minister for Magic in the Harry Potter series, known for his calm authority, loyalty to the Order of the Phoenix, and role in rebuilding the wizarding world after Voldemort’s defeat.
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C.
Mad-Eye Moody
Mad-Eye Moody is a grizzled, paranoid former Auror from the Harry Potter series, famed for his magical prosthetic eye and constant vigilance against dark wizards.
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D.
Teddy Lupin
Teddy Lupin is a minor character in the Harry Potter series, the Metamorphmagus son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks who is orphaned during the Battle of Hogwarts and later raised by his godfather Harry Potter.
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E.
Gilderoy Lockhart
Gilderoy Lockhart is a vain, self-absorbed wizard and celebrity author who briefly serves as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Auror
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fictional character ⓘ war hero ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British Auror Office
NERFINISHED
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Ministry of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fantastic Beasts film series
NERFINISHED
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | presumably pure-blood or half-blood (not explicitly confirmed) ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | British Ministry of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engagedTo | Leta Lestrange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Scamander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fiancé | Leta Lestrange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Theseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrother | Newt Scamander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Albus Dumbledore
NERFINISHED
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Allies opposing Gellert Grindelwald ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | Auror ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Callum Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Newt Scamander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Newt Scamander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| universe | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| warHeroOf | First World War (Wizarding World context) 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: Theseus Scamander Description of subject: Theseus Scamander is a British Auror and war hero in the Wizarding World, best known as Newt Scamander’s older brother in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Scamander