Patrick Troughton
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Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Troughton canonical | 53 |
| Second Doctor | 6 |
| Patrick Troughton: The Biography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326148 — 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: Patrick Troughton Context triple: [The Omen (1976 film), starring, Patrick Troughton]
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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C.
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston is an English actor known for his intense, versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Doctor Who," "The Leftovers," and numerous British dramas.
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D.
Barry Letts
Barry Letts was a British television producer, director, writer, and actor best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who in the 1970s.
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E.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
- 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: Patrick Troughton Target entity description: Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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C.
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston is an English actor known for his intense, versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Doctor Who," "The Leftovers," and numerous British dramas.
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D.
Barry Letts
Barry Letts was a British television producer, director, writer, and actor best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who in the 1970s.
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E.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Patrick Troughton Description of subject: Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patrick Troughton
linked to: Patrick Troughton
linked to: Patrick Troughton
linked to: Patrick Troughton
linked to: Patrick Troughton
subject linked to:
Doctor Who serial "The Invasion"
subject linked to:
Doctor Who season 4
subject linked to:
Doctor Who season 4