The Master
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The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Master canonical | 69 |
| the Master | 41 |
| The Master (TV series) | 1 |
| The Master (in human form) | 1 |
| The Master (subsequent incarnation) | 1 |
| The Master as a child | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120029 — 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 Master Context triple: [Doctor Who, hasAntagonistCharacter, The Master]
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A.
Legum Magister
Legum Magister is a postgraduate academic degree in law, commonly known in English as the Master of Laws (LL.M.).
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B.
Lord
Lord is a reverential title for Jesus Christ, emphasizing his divine authority, sovereignty, and central role in Christian faith and worship.
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The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- 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 Master Target entity description: The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
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A.
Legum Magister
Legum Magister is a postgraduate academic degree in law, commonly known in English as the Master of Laws (LL.M.).
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B.
Lord
Lord is a reverential title for Jesus Christ, emphasizing his divine authority, sovereignty, and central role in Christian faith and worship.
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C.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- 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 Master Description of subject: The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
Referenced by (114)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
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Katy Manning – Jo Grant