Zacharias Smith
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Zacharias Smith is a somewhat skeptical and outspoken Hufflepuff student in the Harry Potter series who joins Dumbledore’s Army at Hogwarts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zacharias Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6081608 — 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: Zacharias Smith Context triple: [Dumbledore's Army, hasMember, Zacharias Smith]
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A.
Nathaniel Smith
Nathaniel Smith is one of the sons of acclaimed British actress Dame Maggie Smith.
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B.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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C.
Zachary
Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
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D.
Zachariah Rigby
Zachariah Rigby is a vengeful former member of a serial-killing duo in the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
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E.
Zachary Hicks
Zachary Hicks was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for serving as second-in-command on James Cook’s first Pacific voyage aboard HMS Endeavour.
- 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: Zacharias Smith Target entity description: Zacharias Smith is a somewhat skeptical and outspoken Hufflepuff student in the Harry Potter series who joins Dumbledore’s Army at Hogwarts.
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A.
Nathaniel Smith
Nathaniel Smith is one of the sons of acclaimed British actress Dame Maggie Smith.
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B.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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C.
Zachary
Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
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D.
Zachariah Rigby
Zachariah Rigby is a vengeful former member of a serial-killing duo in the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
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E.
Zachary Hicks
Zachary Hicks was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for serving as second-in-command on James Cook’s first Pacific voyage aboard HMS Endeavour.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hogwarts student
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attendsClass | Defence Against the Dark Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | half-blood ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Dumbledore's Army training methods
ⓘ
Harry Potter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Second Wizarding War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Potter universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| house | Hufflepuff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseQuidditchTeam | Hufflepuff Quidditch team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseTraitAssociation |
hard work
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ |
| joinsOrganization | Dumbledore's Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinsOrganizationAtLocation | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leavesBattle | Battle of Hogwarts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Dumbledore's Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Dumbledore's Army meetings ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
critical
ⓘ
outspoken ⓘ skeptical ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Nick Shirm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| questions | Harry Potter's account of Voldemort's return ⓘ |
| quidditchPosition | Chaser ⓘ |
| roleInDumbledoresArmy | member ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Wizarding World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| yearAtHogwarts | 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: Zacharias Smith Description of subject: Zacharias Smith is a somewhat skeptical and outspoken Hufflepuff student in the Harry Potter series who joins Dumbledore’s Army at Hogwarts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.