The Wheel in Space
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The Wheel in Space is a 1968 Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor, notable for introducing companion Zoe Heriot and pitting the Doctor against the Cybermen in a space station setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wheel in Space canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3660066 — 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 Wheel in Space Context triple: [Cybermats, appearsIn, The Wheel in Space]
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A.
Wheel in the Sky
"Wheel in the Sky" is a popular rock song by the American band Journey, known for its melodic hooks and prominent use of soaring vocals and guitar.
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B.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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C.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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D.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
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E.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
- 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 Wheel in Space Target entity description: The Wheel in Space is a 1968 Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor, notable for introducing companion Zoe Heriot and pitting the Doctor against the Cybermen in a space station setting.
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A.
Wheel in the Sky
"Wheel in the Sky" is a popular rock song by the American band Journey, known for its melodic hooks and prominent use of soaring vocals and guitar.
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B.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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C.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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D.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
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E.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doctor Who serial
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television story ⓘ |
| broadcastYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | Second Doctor era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Jamie McCrimmon
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The Doctor ⓘ Zoe Heriot ⓘ |
| featuresCompanion |
Jamie McCrimmon
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Zoe Heriot ⓘ |
| featuresDoctor | Second Doctor ⓘ |
| featuresEnemy | Cybermen ⓘ |
| featuresRace | Cybermen ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Dominators ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| franchise | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| introducesCompanion | Zoe Heriot ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Cybermen story set on a space station
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introduction of Zoe Heriot as a companion ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 6 ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| partOf | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| precededBy | Fury from the Deep ⓘ |
| producedBy | BBC ⓘ |
| season | Season 5 ⓘ |
| setting | space station ⓘ |
| storyNumber | 43 ⓘ |
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: The Wheel in Space Description of subject: The Wheel in Space is a 1968 Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor, notable for introducing companion Zoe Heriot and pitting the Doctor against the Cybermen in a space station setting.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.