Gordon Tipple
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Gordon Tipple is a Canadian actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his brief appearance as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordon Tipple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14240315 — 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: Gordon Tipple Context triple: [The Master (Doctor Who), portrayedBy, Gordon Tipple]
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A.
Gordon Sharp
Gordon Sharp is a Scottish musician and vocalist best known as the founder of the ethereal wave band Cindytalk and for his distinctive contributions to the 4AD collective project This Mortal Coil.
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B.
Glen Massey
Glen Massey is a small rural settlement in New Zealand known historically for its coal mining activities.
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C.
Gordon Lyon
Gordon Lyon, better known by his pseudonym Fyodor, is a prominent computer security expert and open-source advocate best known for creating the Nmap network scanning tool.
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D.
Ronald Drever
Ronald Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist best known as a co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and a pioneer in the detection of gravitational waves.
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E.
Tony Gibbs
Tony Gibbs is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Gibbs.
- 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: Gordon Tipple Target entity description: Gordon Tipple is a Canadian actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his brief appearance as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.
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A.
Gordon Sharp
Gordon Sharp is a Scottish musician and vocalist best known as the founder of the ethereal wave band Cindytalk and for his distinctive contributions to the 4AD collective project This Mortal Coil.
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B.
Glen Massey
Glen Massey is a small rural settlement in New Zealand known historically for its coal mining activities.
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C.
Gordon Lyon
Gordon Lyon, better known by his pseudonym Fyodor, is a prominent computer security expert and open-source advocate best known for creating the Nmap network scanning tool.
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D.
Ronald Drever
Ronald Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist best known as a co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and a pioneer in the detection of gravitational waves.
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E.
Tony Gibbs
Tony Gibbs is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Gibbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Master (Doctor Who)