Harry Wormwood
E1019183
Harry Wormwood is the dishonest, neglectful car salesman father of the gifted protagonist in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Matilda."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Wormwood canonical | 4 |
| Mr Wormwood | 1 |
| Mr. Wormwood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13102773 — 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: Harry Wormwood Context triple: [Matilda, character, Harry Wormwood]
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A.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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B.
Winnie Verloc
Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
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C.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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D.
Nicolas Gaster
Nicolas Gaster is a film editor known for his work on the 2006 British drama film "Venus."
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E.
Hubert Aiwanger
Hubert Aiwanger is a German politician best known as the long-time leader of the Free Voters and Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria.
- 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: Harry Wormwood Target entity description: Harry Wormwood is the dishonest, neglectful car salesman father of the gifted protagonist in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Matilda."
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A.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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B.
Winnie Verloc
Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
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C.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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D.
Nicolas Gaster
Nicolas Gaster is a film editor known for his work on the 2006 British drama film "Venus."
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E.
Hubert Aiwanger
Hubert Aiwanger is a German politician best known as the long-time leader of the Free Voters and Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| alliesWith | Agatha Trunchbull ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Matilda ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardEducation | contemptuous ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
novel "Matilda"
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linked to:
Matilda (novel)
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| bookPublicationYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| characterIn |
1996 film "Matilda"
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linked to:
Matilda
stage musical "Matilda the Musical" ⓘ |
| child |
Matilda Wormwood
ⓘ
Michael Wormwood ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Matilda Wormwood
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Miss Honey ⓘ |
| creator | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| familyName | Wormwood ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | children's literature ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAction |
scams customers by tampering with cars
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tears up Matilda's library book ⓘ |
| occupation | used car salesman ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
dishonest
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greedy ⓘ neglectful ⓘ short-tempered ⓘ |
| plotRole | foil to Matilda's intelligence and kindness ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Danny DeVito ⓘ |
| residence | village near Miss Honey's school ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | England ⓘ |
| spouse | Zinnia Wormwood ⓘ |
| treats |
Matilda Wormwood poorly
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linked to:
Matilda Wormwood
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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: Harry Wormwood Description of subject: Harry Wormwood is the dishonest, neglectful car salesman father of the gifted protagonist in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Matilda."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.