the DA
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The DA is a secret student organization at Hogwarts founded by Harry Potter to practice defensive magic and resist Dolores Umbridge’s oppressive regime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the DA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6081574 — 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: the DA Context triple: [Dumbledore's Army, alsoKnownAs, the DA]
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A.
DA
DA is a postcode area in southeast England covering parts of south-east London and northwest Kent, including towns such as Dartford and Sidcup.
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B.
DA
DA is the official abbreviation for the United States Department of the Army, the federal agency responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the U.S. Army.
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C.
DA
DA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, the institution responsible for advanced education and training of the UK’s armed forces and defence personnel.
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D.
D-a-v-e
D-a-v-e is a stylized spelling of the common given name "Dave," typically a diminutive of "David."
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E.
Daatu
Daatu is a Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that explores complex social and caste dynamics in Indian society.
- 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: the DA Target entity description: The DA is a secret student organization at Hogwarts founded by Harry Potter to practice defensive magic and resist Dolores Umbridge’s oppressive regime.
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A.
DA
DA is a postcode area in southeast England covering parts of south-east London and northwest Kent, including towns such as Dartford and Sidcup.
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B.
DA
DA is the official abbreviation for the United States Department of the Army, the federal agency responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the U.S. Army.
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C.
DA
DA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, the institution responsible for advanced education and training of the UK’s armed forces and defence personnel.
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D.
D-a-v-e
D-a-v-e is a stylized spelling of the common given name "Dave," typically a diminutive of "David."
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E.
Daatu
Daatu is a Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that explores complex social and caste dynamics in Indian society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: the DA Description of subject: The DA is a secret student organization at Hogwarts founded by Harry Potter to practice defensive magic and resist Dolores Umbridge’s oppressive regime.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.