Captain Mike Yates
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Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Mike Yates canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3377925 — 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: Captain Mike Yates Context triple: [Terror of the Autons, introducesCharacter, Captain Mike Yates]
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A.
Captain Ed Mercer
Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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C.
Captain Roy Brown
Captain Roy Brown was a Canadian World War I flying ace best known for his role in the aerial engagement that led to the death of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
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D.
Captain Richard Pearson
Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- 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: Captain Mike Yates Target entity description: Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
Captain Ed Mercer
Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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C.
Captain Roy Brown
Captain Roy Brown was a Canadian World War I flying ace best known for his role in the aerial engagement that led to the death of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
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D.
Captain Richard Pearson
Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Captain Mike Yates Description of subject: Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
subject linked to:
Katy Manning – Jo Grant
subject linked to:
Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
subject linked to:
Richard Franklin – Captain Mike Yates
subject linked to:
Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"