Vernon Dursley
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Vernon Dursley is a gruff, narrow-minded Muggle businessman from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s unpleasant uncle who vehemently rejects anything to do with magic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vernon Dursley canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7561960 — 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: Vernon Dursley Context triple: [Little Whinging, notableResident, Vernon Dursley]
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A.
Dudley Dursley
Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s spoiled and bullying cousin, known for tormenting Harry throughout much of the series before gradually showing small signs of change.
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B.
Petunia Dursley
Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter’s magic-hating Muggle aunt who, along with her husband Vernon, begrudgingly raises him in the Dursley household.
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C.
Dursley
Dursley is a historic market town in South West England, situated near the Cotswold escarpment and known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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D.
George Weasley
George Weasley is a mischievous and inventive wizard from the Harry Potter series, best known as one of the Weasley twins and a creator of magical pranks and joke products.
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E.
Arthur Weasley
Arthur Weasley is a kind-hearted, Muggle-obsessed wizard who works at the Ministry of Magic and is the patriarch of the Weasley family in the Harry Potter series.
- 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: Vernon Dursley Target entity description: Vernon Dursley is a gruff, narrow-minded Muggle businessman from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s unpleasant uncle who vehemently rejects anything to do with magic.
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A.
Dudley Dursley
Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s spoiled and bullying cousin, known for tormenting Harry throughout much of the series before gradually showing small signs of change.
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B.
Petunia Dursley
Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter’s magic-hating Muggle aunt who, along with her husband Vernon, begrudgingly raises him in the Dursley household.
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C.
Dursley
Dursley is a historic market town in South West England, situated near the Cotswold escarpment and known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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D.
George Weasley
George Weasley is a mischievous and inventive wizard from the Harry Potter series, best known as one of the Weasley twins and a creator of magical pranks and joke products.
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E.
Arthur Weasley
Arthur Weasley is a kind-hearted, Muggle-obsessed wizard who works at the Ministry of Magic and is the patriarch of the Weasley family in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muggle
ⓘ
character in the Harry Potter series ⓘ fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ uncle ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
ⓘ
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ⓘ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⓘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ⓘ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ⓘ |
| bloodStatus | Muggle-born ⓘ |
| bodyType |
large
ⓘ
overweight ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
ⓘ
gruff ⓘ materialistic ⓘ narrow-minded ⓘ prejudiced against magic ⓘ short-tempered ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling ⓘ |
| employer | Grunnings ⓘ |
| family |
Dursley family
ⓘ
linked to:
Dursley family (Harry Potter film series)
Evans family by marriage ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Wizarding World ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Harry Potter ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark ⓘ |
| hasBrotherInLaw | James Potter ⓘ |
| hasChild | Dudley Dursley ⓘ |
| hasNephew | Harry Potter ⓘ |
| hasSisterInLaw | Lily Potter ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Petunia Dursley ⓘ |
| householdRole | head of the Dursley household ⓘ |
| industry | drill manufacturing ⓘ |
| legalStatusRegardingHarry | Harry Potter's legal guardian during childhood ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium |
films
ⓘ
novels ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempting to keep Harry Potter from Hogwarts
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mistreating Harry Potter ⓘ vehement rejection of magic ⓘ |
| occupation | director at Grunnings ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Griffiths ⓘ |
| residence |
4 Privet Drive
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linked to:
Privet Drive
Little Whinging ⓘ Surrey ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
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: Vernon Dursley Description of subject: Vernon Dursley is a gruff, narrow-minded Muggle businessman from the Harry Potter series, known as Harry Potter’s unpleasant uncle who vehemently rejects anything to do with magic.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Grunnings (Harry Potter film series)
subject linked to:
Grunnings (Harry Potter film series)