Sylvester McCoy
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Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Seventh Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sylvester McCoy canonical | 8 |
| Sylvester McCoy (audio dramas) | 1 |
| Sylvester McCoy (television) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3939024 — 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: Sylvester McCoy Context triple: [The Doctor, portrayedBy, Sylvester McCoy]
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A.
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Colin Baker
Colin Baker is a British actor best known for playing the Sixth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who during the 1980s.
- 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: Sylvester McCoy Target entity description: Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Seventh Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who."
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A.
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Colin Baker
Colin Baker is a British actor best known for playing the Sixth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who during the 1980s.
- 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: Sylvester McCoy Description of subject: Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Seventh Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.