Skiving Snackboxes
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Skiving Snackboxes are magical sweets from the Harry Potter series that cause temporary illnesses to help students skip classes, created and sold by Fred and George Weasley.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skiving Snackboxes canonical | 4 |
| Skiving Snackbox | 3 |
| Skiving Snackbox sweet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072576 — 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: Skiving Snackboxes Context triple: [Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, knownFor, Skiving Snackboxes]
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A.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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B.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
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D.
The Juice Box
The Juice Box is a popular nickname for Minute Maid Park, the retractable-roof baseball stadium in Houston, Texas, home of the Houston Astros.
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E.
Crawford Boxes
Crawford Boxes are the short-porch left-field seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston, known for their proximity to home plate and frequent home run balls.
- 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: Skiving Snackboxes Target entity description: Skiving Snackboxes are magical sweets from the Harry Potter series that cause temporary illnesses to help students skip classes, created and sold by Fred and George Weasley.
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A.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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B.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
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D.
The Juice Box
The Juice Box is a popular nickname for Minute Maid Park, the retractable-roof baseball stadium in Houston, Texas, home of the Houston Astros.
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E.
Crawford Boxes
Crawford Boxes are the short-porch left-field seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston, known for their proximity to home plate and frequent home run balls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional object
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joke product ⓘ magical product ⓘ wizarding sweet ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Harry Potter series ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Potter novel series
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| category | Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Fred Weasley
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George Weasley ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseCreator | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| firstIntroducedIn | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Fainting Fancies
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Fever Fudge ⓘ Nosebleed Nougat ⓘ Puking Pastilles ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
causes temporary illnesses
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induces fainting ⓘ induces fever ⓘ induces nosebleeds ⓘ induces vomiting ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
effects are temporary
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requires antidote half to recover ⓘ sold in a boxed assortment ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | to help students skip classes ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs | Skiving Snackboxes ⓘ |
| setInUniverse | Wizarding World ⓘ |
| soldBy | Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes ⓘ |
| targetCustomer | students wanting to avoid lessons ⓘ |
| usedBy | Hogwarts students ⓘ |
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: Skiving Snackboxes Description of subject: Skiving Snackboxes are magical sweets from the Harry Potter series that cause temporary illnesses to help students skip classes, created and sold by Fred and George Weasley.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Skiving Snackboxes
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