the Corsair
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The Corsair is a renegade Time Lord from the Doctor Who universe, known for their adventurous, gender-fluid incarnations and friendship with the Doctor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the Corsair canonical | 4 |
| Corsair | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566160 — 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 Corsair Context triple: [Time Lord, notableMember, the Corsair]
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A.
The Corsair
The Corsair is a popular narrative poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1814, that tells the romantic and adventurous tale of a pirate hero and became a major literary sensation of its time.
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B.
Corsair International
Corsair International is a French long-haul leisure airline operating flights primarily from Paris to holiday destinations in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and North America.
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C.
Ramport Aero
Ramport Aero is the company responsible for managing and operating Zhukovsky International Airport near Moscow, Russia.
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D.
Cobra
Cobra is a 1986 American action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as a tough, rule-breaking cop battling a violent crime cult.
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E.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
- 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 Corsair Target entity description: The Corsair is a renegade Time Lord from the Doctor Who universe, known for their adventurous, gender-fluid incarnations and friendship with the Doctor.
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A.
The Corsair
The Corsair is a popular narrative poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1814, that tells the romantic and adventurous tale of a pirate hero and became a major literary sensation of its time.
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B.
Corsair International
Corsair International is a French long-haul leisure airline operating flights primarily from Paris to holiday destinations in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and North America.
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C.
Ramport Aero
Ramport Aero is the company responsible for managing and operating Zhukovsky International Airport near Moscow, Russia.
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D.
Cobra
Cobra is a 1986 American action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as a tough, rule-breaking cop battling a violent crime cult.
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E.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Time Lord
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ renegade Time Lord ⓘ |
| alignment | generally benevolent ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
audio drama (expanded universe)
ⓘ
prose fiction (expanded universe) ⓘ television (mentioned) ⓘ |
| associatedWith | TARDIS ⓘ |
| belongsToSpeciesWithTrait | Time Lords can change sex on regeneration ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | television canon (mentioned on-screen) ⓘ |
| createdBy | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| createdFor |
BBC television series Doctor Who
ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor Who
|
| eraMentioned | Eleventh Doctor era ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Doctor Who universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor Who
|
| firstMentionedIn | "The Doctor's Wife" ⓘ |
| firstMentionedInSeries |
Doctor Who (2005 revival)
ⓘ
linked to:
2005 Doctor Who revival
|
| friendOf |
Eleventh Doctor
ⓘ
linked to:
The Doctor
|
| friendshipTypeWithDoctor | long-standing friendship ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | gender-fluid ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
the Doctor
ⓘ
linked to:
The Doctor
|
| hasIncarnationsOfGender |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ non-binary (implied) ⓘ |
| hasMultipleRegenerations | yes ⓘ |
| hasPronouns | varies by incarnation ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
the Doctor
ⓘ
linked to:
The Doctor
|
| hasTattoo | snake tattoo ⓘ |
| homePlanet | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| killedBy | House (sentient entity) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adventurous lifestyle
ⓘ
renegade activities ⓘ time-travel adventures ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to illustrate Time Lord gender fluidity ⓘ |
| narrativeStatus | deceased (by the time of "The Doctor's Wife") ⓘ |
| organization |
Time Lords of Gallifrey (former)
ⓘ
linked to:
Time Lord
|
| portrayedAs |
charismatic
ⓘ
free-spirited ⓘ unpredictable ⓘ |
| profession |
adventurer
ⓘ
time traveller ⓘ |
| regenerationAbility | yes ⓘ |
| represents | LGBTQ+ representation in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| sharesTraitWith |
the Doctor (renegade from Time Lord society)
ⓘ
linked to:
the War Doctor
|
| species | Gallifreyan ⓘ |
| tattooLocation | arm (at least one incarnation) ⓘ |
| tattooSymbolism | sign of the Corsair ⓘ |
| timeLordSocietyStatus | renegade ⓘ |
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: the Corsair Description of subject: The Corsair is a renegade Time Lord from the Doctor Who universe, known for their adventurous, gender-fluid incarnations and friendship with the Doctor.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: the Corsair