Lalla Ward
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Lalla Ward is an English actress and author best known for playing the Time Lady Romana in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lalla Ward canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3435506 — 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: Lalla Ward Context triple: [Romana, portrayedBy, Lalla Ward]
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A.
Catherine Durkan
Catherine Durkan is a notable individual associated with the Durkan family name, recognized as a bearer of this surname.
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B.
Jane Wenham
Jane Wenham was a British actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre.
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C.
Lara Pulver
Lara Pulver is a British actress known for her roles in television series such as "Sherlock" and "Spooks," as well as various film and stage productions.
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D.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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E.
Tessa Menzies
Tessa Menzies is a child of California politician and governor Gavin Newsom.
- 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: Lalla Ward Target entity description: Lalla Ward is an English actress and author best known for playing the Time Lady Romana in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
Catherine Durkan
Catherine Durkan is a notable individual associated with the Durkan family name, recognized as a bearer of this surname.
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B.
Jane Wenham
Jane Wenham was a British actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre.
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C.
Lara Pulver
Lara Pulver is a British actress known for her roles in television series such as "Sherlock" and "Spooks," as well as various film and stage productions.
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D.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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E.
Tessa Menzies
Tessa Menzies is a child of California politician and governor Gavin Newsom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Lalla Ward Description of subject: Lalla Ward is an English actress and author best known for playing the Time Lady Romana in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
City of Death
subject surface form:
Shada