Third Doctor
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The Third Doctor is a dashing, scientifically minded incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British sci-fi series "Doctor Who," known for his action-oriented adventures, love of gadgets, and partnership with UNIT in early 1970s stories.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Third Doctor canonical | 30 |
| Third Doctor era | 2 |
| The Third Doctor | 1 |
| the Third Doctor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659865 — 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: Third Doctor Context triple: [Doctor Who comic strips, featuresCharacter, Third Doctor]
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Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is a long-scarf-wearing, eccentric and witty incarnation of the Doctor from the British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Tom Baker in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is a youthful, cricket-loving incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by actor Peter Davison.
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Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is a flamboyantly dressed, often brash and intellectually formidable incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, originally portrayed by Colin Baker.
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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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Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Paul McGann and known for bridging the classic and modern eras of the show.
- 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: Third Doctor Target entity description: The Third Doctor is a dashing, scientifically minded incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British sci-fi series "Doctor Who," known for his action-oriented adventures, love of gadgets, and partnership with UNIT in early 1970s stories.
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A.
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is a long-scarf-wearing, eccentric and witty incarnation of the Doctor from the British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Tom Baker in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is a youthful, cricket-loving incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by actor Peter Davison.
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C.
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is a flamboyantly dressed, often brash and intellectually formidable incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, originally portrayed by Colin Baker.
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D.
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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E.
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Paul McGann and known for bridging the classic and modern eras of the show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Third Doctor Description of subject: The Third Doctor is a dashing, scientifically minded incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British sci-fi series "Doctor Who," known for his action-oriented adventures, love of gadgets, and partnership with UNIT in early 1970s stories.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Katy Manning – Jo Grant
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Katy Manning – Jo Grant
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Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
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Richard Franklin – Captain Mike Yates
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Doctor Who serial "Spearhead from Space"
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Doctor Who serial "Spearhead from Space"
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Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"
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Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"
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Missing Adventures series