young Tom Riddle
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Young Tom Riddle is the sinister, orphaned boy who later becomes the dark wizard Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| young Tom Riddle canonical | 2 |
| murdered his father Tom Riddle Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12777206 — 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: young Tom Riddle Context triple: [Christian Coulson, characterTypePortrayed, young Tom Riddle]
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A.
James Sirius Potter
James Sirius Potter is the eldest son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter universe, known for inheriting his parents’ mischievous and bold nature.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tobias Snape
Tobias Snape is the Muggle father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, depicted as a harsh and often abusive figure in his son's troubled childhood.
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D.
Albus Severus Potter
Albus Severus Potter is the second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, best known for his central role in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," where he struggles with his family legacy and his place in the wizarding world.
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E.
Marvolo Gaunt
Marvolo Gaunt is a pure-blood wizard from the Harry Potter series, notable as a violent, impoverished descendant of Salazar Slytherin and a key link in Lord Voldemort’s dark family lineage.
- 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: young Tom Riddle Target entity description: Young Tom Riddle is the sinister, orphaned boy who later becomes the dark wizard Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
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A.
James Sirius Potter
James Sirius Potter is the eldest son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter universe, known for inheriting his parents’ mischievous and bold nature.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tobias Snape
Tobias Snape is the Muggle father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, depicted as a harsh and often abusive figure in his son's troubled childhood.
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D.
Albus Severus Potter
Albus Severus Potter is the second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, best known for his central role in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," where he struggles with his family legacy and his place in the wizarding world.
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E.
Marvolo Gaunt
Marvolo Gaunt is a pure-blood wizard from the Harry Potter series, notable as a violent, impoverished descendant of Salazar Slytherin and a key link in Lord Voldemort’s dark family lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hogwarts student
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Slytherin student ⓘ antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ orphan ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| ability |
Legilimency
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create Horcruxes ⓘ speak Parseltongue ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ⓘ |
| aunt | Morfin Gaunt ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | half-blood ⓘ |
| childhoodResidence | Wool's Orphanage ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| enemy |
Albus Dumbledore
ⓘ
Harry Potter ⓘ |
| father | Tom Riddle Sr. ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Potter ⓘ |
| fullName |
Tom Marvolo Riddle
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord Voldemort
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
achieve immortality
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gain power over the wizarding world ⓘ |
| grandfather | Marvolo Gaunt ⓘ |
| horcrux |
Harry Potter
ⓘ
Helga Hufflepuff's cup ⓘ Marvolo Gaunt's ring ⓘ Nagini ⓘ Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem ⓘ
linked to:
Ravenclaw’s diadem
Salazar Slytherin's locket ⓘ Tom Riddle's diary ⓘ |
| houseAtHogwarts | Slytherin ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Parseltongue
ⓘ
linked to:
Parseltongue (understands)
|
| laterKnownAs | Lord Voldemort ⓘ |
| mentor |
Professor Horace Slughorn
ⓘ
linked to:
Horace Slughorn
|
| mother | Merope Gaunt ⓘ |
| notableAct |
created multiple Horcruxes
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framed Rubeus Hagrid for attacks at Hogwarts ⓘ murdered his father Tom Riddle Sr. ⓘ
linked to:
young Tom Riddle
murdered his grandparents ⓘ opened the Chamber of Secrets ⓘ released the basilisk at Hogwarts ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
ambitious
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charming ⓘ intelligent ⓘ manipulative ⓘ ruthless ⓘ sadistic ⓘ |
| school | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ⓘ |
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: young Tom Riddle Description of subject: Young Tom Riddle is the sinister, orphaned boy who later becomes the dark wizard Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.