Marco Polo
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Marco Polo is a 1964 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor and his companions encountering the famous Venetian explorer along the Silk Road, notable for being one of the series’ lost stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marco Polo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17014252 — 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: Marco Polo Context triple: [The Keys of Marinus, precededBy, Marco Polo]
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A.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer whose travels across Asia and detailed accounts of the Mongol Empire profoundly influenced European knowledge of the East.
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B.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo is a Canadian hip-hop record producer known for his gritty, sample-based boom-bap sound and collaborations with numerous underground rap artists.
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C.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo is a historical drama television series that follows the early adventures of the Venetian explorer at the court of Kublai Khan in 13th-century Mongolia and China.
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D.
Niccolò Polo
Niccolò Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer best known as the father of Marco Polo and for his own extensive trading journeys across Asia.
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E.
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine was a 13th-century Italian Franciscan friar and papal envoy renowned for being one of the first Europeans to travel deep into the Mongol Empire and write a detailed account of it.
- 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: Marco Polo Target entity description: Marco Polo is a 1964 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor and his companions encountering the famous Venetian explorer along the Silk Road, notable for being one of the series’ lost stories.
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A.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer whose travels across Asia and detailed accounts of the Mongol Empire profoundly influenced European knowledge of the East.
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B.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo is a Canadian hip-hop record producer known for his gritty, sample-based boom-bap sound and collaborations with numerous underground rap artists.
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C.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo is a historical drama television series that follows the early adventures of the Venetian explorer at the court of Kublai Khan in 13th-century Mongolia and China.
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D.
Niccolò Polo
Niccolò Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer best known as the father of Marco Polo and for his own extensive trading journeys across Asia.
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E.
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine was a 13th-century Italian Franciscan friar and papal envoy renowned for being one of the first Europeans to travel deep into the Mongol Empire and write a detailed account of it.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.