Polly
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Polly is a fictional companion of the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Polly canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659791 — 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: Polly Context triple: [The Tenth Planet, featuresCompanion, Polly]
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A.
Polly
Polly is a ballad opera by John Gay, written as a sequel to his famous work "The Beggar's Opera" and noted for its satirical treatment of colonialism and morality.
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B.
Polly
Polly is the nickname of Mary Prince, a West Indian woman whose 1831 autobiography was the first account of a Black woman’s life published in Britain and a powerful indictment of slavery.
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C.
Polly
Polly is a fictional character known as the daughter of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin."
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D.
Polly
Polly is an LLVM project component that performs advanced loop optimizations and automatic parallelization using polyhedral compilation techniques.
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E.
Mavis
Mavis is a character in Enid Blyton’s "Malory Towers" series, known as a talented but vain singer whose ambition often leads her into trouble.
- 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: Polly Target entity description: Polly is a fictional companion of the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Polly
Polly is a ballad opera by John Gay, written as a sequel to his famous work "The Beggar's Opera" and noted for its satirical treatment of colonialism and morality.
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B.
Polly
Polly is the nickname of Mary Prince, a West Indian woman whose 1831 autobiography was the first account of a Black woman’s life published in Britain and a powerful indictment of slavery.
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C.
Polly
Polly is a fictional character known as the daughter of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin."
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D.
Polly
Polly is an LLVM project component that performs advanced loop optimizations and automatic parallelization using polyhedral compilation techniques.
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E.
Mavis
Mavis is a character in Enid Blyton’s "Malory Towers" series, known as a talented but vain singer whose ambition often leads her into trouble.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Polly Description of subject: Polly is a fictional companion of the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.