The Pirate Planet
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The Pirate Planet is a 1978 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor, written by Douglas Adams and known for its darkly comic story about a world that materializes around and plunders other planets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Pirate Planet canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14404144 — 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 Pirate Planet Context triple: [The Ribos Operation, followedBy, The Pirate Planet]
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A.
The Space Pirates
The Space Pirates is a missing 1969 serial from the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Second Doctor in an adventure involving interstellar piracy and mineral-rich space beacons.
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B.
The Ice Pirates
The Ice Pirates is a 1984 science-fiction comedy film that parodies space opera tropes in a future where water is the most precious resource.
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C.
The Mysterious Planet
The Mysterious Planet is a science fiction novel by Lester del Rey, known for blending adventure with speculative scientific ideas in a mysterious extraterrestrial setting.
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D.
The Forgotten Planet
The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel, often associated with mid-20th-century pulp SF, that depicts human survivors struggling to live on a hostile world overrun by gigantic mutated insects.
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E.
The Shrouded Planet
The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
- 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 Pirate Planet Target entity description: The Pirate Planet is a 1978 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor, written by Douglas Adams and known for its darkly comic story about a world that materializes around and plunders other planets.
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A.
The Space Pirates
The Space Pirates is a missing 1969 serial from the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Second Doctor in an adventure involving interstellar piracy and mineral-rich space beacons.
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B.
The Ice Pirates
The Ice Pirates is a 1984 science-fiction comedy film that parodies space opera tropes in a future where water is the most precious resource.
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C.
The Mysterious Planet
The Mysterious Planet is a science fiction novel by Lester del Rey, known for blending adventure with speculative scientific ideas in a mysterious extraterrestrial setting.
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D.
The Forgotten Planet
The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel, often associated with mid-20th-century pulp SF, that depicts human survivors struggling to live on a hostile world overrun by gigantic mutated insects.
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E.
The Shrouded Planet
The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.