The Five Doctors
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The Five Doctors is a 1983 Doctor Who special that brings together multiple incarnations of the Doctor in a single anniversary adventure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Five Doctors canonical | 12 |
| Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | 2 |
| Doctor Who story "The Five Doctors" | 1 |
| The Five Doctors (as illusion) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3938986 — 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 Five Doctors Context triple: [The Doctor, appearsIn, The Five Doctors]
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A.
The Three Doctors
The Three Doctors is a 1972–73 Doctor Who serial that celebrated the show's tenth anniversary by uniting the first three incarnations of the Doctor to battle a powerful Time Lord enemy.
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B.
Doctor Who: The Movie
Doctor Who: The Movie is a 1996 television film that revived the long-running British sci-fi series by introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in an American co-produced adventure.
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C.
Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways
"Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways" is the climactic 2005 series finale of the British science fiction show Doctor Who, featuring the Ninth Doctor’s regeneration and a large-scale Dalek invasion.
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D.
The Next Doctor
"The Next Doctor" is a 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special in which the Tenth Doctor encounters a mysterious man in Victorian London who believes himself to be the Doctor amid a Cybermen invasion.
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E.
Rise of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Cybermen in an alternate universe, depicting their chilling origin as emotionless cyborgs.
- 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 Five Doctors Target entity description: The Five Doctors is a 1983 Doctor Who special that brings together multiple incarnations of the Doctor in a single anniversary adventure.
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A.
The Three Doctors
The Three Doctors is a 1972–73 Doctor Who serial that celebrated the show's tenth anniversary by uniting the first three incarnations of the Doctor to battle a powerful Time Lord enemy.
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B.
Doctor Who: The Movie
Doctor Who: The Movie is a 1996 television film that revived the long-running British sci-fi series by introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in an American co-produced adventure.
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C.
Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways
"Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways" is the climactic 2005 series finale of the British science fiction show Doctor Who, featuring the Ninth Doctor’s regeneration and a large-scale Dalek invasion.
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D.
The Next Doctor
"The Next Doctor" is a 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special in which the Tenth Doctor encounters a mysterious man in Victorian London who believes himself to be the Doctor amid a Cybermen invasion.
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E.
Rise of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Cybermen in an alternate universe, depicting their chilling origin as emotionless cyborgs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Five Doctors Description of subject: The Five Doctors is a 1983 Doctor Who special that brings together multiple incarnations of the Doctor in a single anniversary adventure.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
subject linked to:
Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
subject linked to:
Richard Franklin – Captain Mike Yates
linked to: The Five Doctors
subject linked to:
Master in Doctor Who
linked to: The Five Doctors