The Robots of Death
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The Robots of Death is a classic 1977 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela investigating a series of murders aboard a sand-mining vessel crewed by human-like robots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Robots of Death canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20232495 — 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 Robots of Death Context triple: [The Talons of Weng-Chiang, chronologyFollows, The Robots of Death]
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A.
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is a 1994 science fiction thriller film, based on Robert A. Heinlein’s novel, about a covert alien invasion that controls humans through parasitic organisms.
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B.
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a covert alien invasion using parasitic mind-controlling creatures.
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C.
Machine Man
Machine Man is a Marvel Comics android superhero, also known as X-51 or Aaron Stack, noted for his advanced artificial intelligence and exploration of what it means to be human.
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D.
Ghost of the Robot
Ghost of the Robot is an American rock band best known for featuring actor and musician James Marsters as its lead vocalist.
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E.
The Runaway Robot
The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
- 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 Robots of Death Target entity description: The Robots of Death is a classic 1977 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela investigating a series of murders aboard a sand-mining vessel crewed by human-like robots.
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A.
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a covert alien invasion using parasitic mind-controlling creatures.
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B.
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is a 1994 science fiction thriller film, based on Robert A. Heinlein’s novel, about a covert alien invasion that controls humans through parasitic organisms.
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C.
Machine Man
Machine Man is a Marvel Comics android superhero, also known as X-51 or Aaron Stack, noted for his advanced artificial intelligence and exploration of what it means to be human.
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D.
Ghost of the Robot
Ghost of the Robot is an American rock band best known for featuring actor and musician James Marsters as its lead vocalist.
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E.
The Runaway Robot
The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"