Isobel Ross
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Isobel Ross is a Scottish witch in the Harry Potter universe, best known as the mother of Minerva McGonagall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isobel Ross canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128531 — 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: Isobel Ross Context triple: [Minerva McGonagall, mother, Isobel Ross]
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A.
Elspeth Thomson
Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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C.
Mairi Gougeon
Mairi Gougeon is a Scottish National Party politician who serves in the Scottish Government cabinet with responsibility for rural affairs.
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D.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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E.
Anna Erskine
Anna Erskine is the daughter of American actress Lindsay Crouse.
- 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: Isobel Ross Target entity description: Isobel Ross is a Scottish witch in the Harry Potter universe, best known as the mother of Minerva McGonagall.
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A.
Elspeth Thomson
Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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C.
Mairi Gougeon
Mairi Gougeon is a Scottish National Party politician who serves in the Scottish Government cabinet with responsibility for rural affairs.
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D.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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E.
Anna Erskine
Anna Erskine is the daughter of American actress Lindsay Crouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
witch ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pottermore writings ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | pure-blood ⓘ |
| child | Minerva McGonagall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| creator | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| familyName | Ross ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Isobel ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation | witch ⓘ |
| relative |
Minerva McGonagall
ⓘ
Robert McGonagall Sr. ⓘ
linked to:
Robert McGonagall
|
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| spouse |
Robert McGonagall Sr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Robert McGonagall
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| universe |
Harry Potter universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Wizarding World
|
| workOfFiction | Harry Potter ⓘ |
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: Isobel Ross Description of subject: Isobel Ross is a Scottish witch in the Harry Potter universe, best known as the mother of Minerva McGonagall.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.