Adric
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Adric is a young, mathematically gifted alien companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adric canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659899 — 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: Adric Context triple: [Earthshock, featuresCompanion, Adric]
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A.
Adrian
Adrian was a renowned Hollywood costume designer best known for creating glamorous and influential fashions for classic MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter is a Canadian-born journalist and longtime editor of Vanity Fair, known for his influential role in media and culture.
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C.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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D.
Edmund Breon
Edmund Breon was a Scottish character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in British and American films, particularly during the silent and early sound eras.
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E.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
- 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: Adric Target entity description: Adric is a young, mathematically gifted alien companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
Adrian
Adrian was a renowned Hollywood costume designer best known for creating glamorous and influential fashions for classic MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter is a Canadian-born journalist and longtime editor of Vanity Fair, known for his influential role in media and culture.
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C.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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D.
Edmund Breon
Edmund Breon was a Scottish character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in British and American films, particularly during the silent and early sound eras.
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E.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
- 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: Adric Description of subject: Adric is a young, mathematically gifted alien companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Nathan-Turner