House of Black
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The House of Black is an ancient, aristocratic pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter series, known for its dark reputation, strict blood purity ideals, and notable members like Sirius Black.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Black canonical | 24 |
| The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black family tree | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110988 — 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: House of Black Context triple: [Sirius Black, family, House of Black]
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A.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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B.
House of Mark
The House of Mark was a medieval German noble family that ruled the County (later Duchy) of Mark in the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
House of Griffins
The House of Griffins was a medieval ruling dynasty that governed the Duchy of Pomerania and surrounding Baltic territories for several centuries.
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D.
House of Slaves
The House of Slaves is a historic museum and former slave-holding facility on Gorée Island in Senegal, memorializing the Atlantic slave trade and its human toll.
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E.
House of Sabran
The House of Sabran is an old Provençal noble family of France, historically prominent in military and courtly service under the French monarchy.
- 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: House of Black Target entity description: The House of Black is an ancient, aristocratic pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter series, known for its dark reputation, strict blood purity ideals, and notable members like Sirius Black.
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A.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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B.
House of Mark
The House of Mark was a medieval German noble family that ruled the County (later Duchy) of Mark in the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
House of Griffins
The House of Griffins was a medieval ruling dynasty that governed the Duchy of Pomerania and surrounding Baltic territories for several centuries.
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D.
House of Slaves
The House of Slaves is a historic museum and former slave-holding facility on Gorée Island in Senegal, memorializing the Atlantic slave trade and its human toll.
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E.
House of Sabran
The House of Sabran is an old Provençal noble family of France, historically prominent in military and courtly service under the French monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: House of Black Description of subject: The House of Black is an ancient, aristocratic pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter series, known for its dark reputation, strict blood purity ideals, and notable members like Sirius Black.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.