William Hartnell
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William Hartnell was an English actor best known for originating the role of the First Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Hartnell canonical | 22 |
| Hartnell | 1 |
| William Henry Hartnell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3416227 — 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: William Hartnell Context triple: [The Time Meddler, featuresDoctorActor, William Hartnell]
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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.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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C.
Patrick Troughton
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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D.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roger Lloyd-Pack was an English actor best known for his comedic roles in British television, particularly as Trigger in "Only Fools and Horses."
- 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: William Hartnell Target entity description: William Hartnell was an English actor best known for originating the role of the First 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.
Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
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C.
Patrick Troughton
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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D.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roger Lloyd-Pack was an English actor best known for his comedic roles in British television, particularly as Trigger in "Only Fools and Horses."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: William Hartnell Description of subject: William Hartnell was an English actor best known for originating the role of the First Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brighton Rock
subject linked to:
Doctor Who season 4
subject linked to:
Doctor Who season 4
linked to: William Hartnell
linked to: William Hartnell
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "An Unearthly Child"