Marvolo Gaunt
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marvolo Gaunt canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5111661 — 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: Marvolo Gaunt Context triple: [Lord Voldemort, grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt]
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A.
Merope Gaunt
Merope Gaunt is a tragic witch from the Harry Potter series, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin whose unhappy life and use of a love potion to ensnare Tom Riddle Sr. ultimately led to the birth of Lord Voldemort.
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B.
Barty Crouch Sr.
Barty Crouch Sr. is a strict, high-ranking Ministry of Magic official whose rigid pursuit of law and order plays a pivotal role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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C.
Tom Riddle Sr.
Tom Riddle Sr. was a wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton who was deceived into a relationship with Merope Gaunt and became the unwilling father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
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D.
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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E.
Walburga Black
Walburga Black is a pure-blood witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the fanatically traditional and prejudiced matriarch of the Black family whose portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place.
- 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: Marvolo Gaunt Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Merope Gaunt
Merope Gaunt is a tragic witch from the Harry Potter series, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin whose unhappy life and use of a love potion to ensnare Tom Riddle Sr. ultimately led to the birth of Lord Voldemort.
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B.
Barty Crouch Sr.
Barty Crouch Sr. is a strict, high-ranking Ministry of Magic official whose rigid pursuit of law and order plays a pivotal role in the events surrounding the Triwizard Tournament.
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C.
Tom Riddle Sr.
Tom Riddle Sr. was a wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton who was deceived into a relationship with Merope Gaunt and became the unwilling father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
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D.
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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E.
Walburga Black
Walburga Black is a pure-blood witch from the Harry Potter series, known as the fanatically traditional and prejudiced matriarch of the Black family whose portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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pure-blood wizard ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| ability | speak Parseltongue ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Lord Voldemort
ⓘ
Tom Marvolo Riddle ⓘ
linked to:
Lord Voldemort
|
| appearsIn | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ⓘ |
| arrestedBy | Bob Ogden ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardMuggle-borns | contemptuous ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardMuggles | hateful ⓘ |
| bloodline | Slytherin bloodline ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | decline after Azkaban imprisonment ⓘ |
| convictedOf | assault on a Ministry official ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| descendantOf | Salazar Slytherin ⓘ |
| diedBefore | the birth of Tom Marvolo Riddle’s rise to power ⓘ |
| economicStatus | impoverished ⓘ |
| family | Gaunt family ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Merope Gaunt
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Morfin Gaunt ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| houseAffiliation |
Slytherin (by ancestry)
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linked to:
Slytherin
|
| languageSpoken | Parseltongue ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a descendant of Salazar Slytherin
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being part of Lord Voldemort’s ancestry ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
abusive
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prejudiced against Muggles ⓘ proud of blood purity ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| possessed |
Gaunt family ring
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Marvolo Gaunt’s ring ⓘ Slytherin’s locket ⓘ
linked to:
Salazar Slytherin's locket
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| relatedTo |
Lord Voldemort
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Merope Gaunt ⓘ Morfin Gaunt ⓘ Salazar Slytherin ⓘ Tom Marvolo Riddle ⓘ
linked to:
Lord Voldemort
|
| residence |
Gaunt shack
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Little Hangleton ⓘ |
| ringContained |
Resurrection Stone
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linked to:
Marvolo Gaunt's ring
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| seenVia |
Pensieve memory
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linked to:
Into the Pensieve
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| sentTo | Azkaban ⓘ |
| treats |
Merope Gaunt abusively
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Morfin Gaunt abusively ⓘ |
| universe | Harry Potter ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Marvolo Gaunt Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.