Javic Piotr Thane
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Javic Piotr Thane is the real name of Captain Jack Harkness, a time-traveling former Time Agent and immortal con man from the Doctor Who and Torchwood television series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Javic Piotr Thane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3892635 — 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: Javic Piotr Thane Context triple: [Captain Jack Harkness, fullName, Javic Piotr Thane]
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A.
Jacek
Jacek is a common Polish male given name, often associated with notable figures in Polish politics, arts, and academia.
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B.
Darek
Darek is a given name, typically a variant spelling of Derek used in various European countries.
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C.
Valter
Valter is a masculine given name used in various European countries, generally equivalent to the English name Walter.
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D.
Jacob Vaark
Jacob Vaark is a 17th-century Anglo-Dutch farmer and landowner in Toni Morrison’s novel "A Mercy," whose experiences reflect the brutal complexities of early American colonialism and slavery.
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E.
Evan Londo
Evan Londo is a child actor best known for playing Abel Teller on the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
- 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: Javic Piotr Thane Target entity description: Javic Piotr Thane is the real name of Captain Jack Harkness, a time-traveling former Time Agent and immortal con man from the Doctor Who and Torchwood television series.
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A.
Jacek
Jacek is a common Polish male given name, often associated with notable figures in Polish politics, arts, and academia.
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B.
Darek
Darek is a given name, typically a variant spelling of Derek used in various European countries.
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C.
Valter
Valter is a masculine given name used in various European countries, generally equivalent to the English name Walter.
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D.
Jacob Vaark
Jacob Vaark is a 17th-century Anglo-Dutch farmer and landowner in Toni Morrison’s novel "A Mercy," whose experiences reflect the brutal complexities of early American colonialism and slavery.
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E.
Evan Londo
Evan Londo is a child actor best known for playing Abel Teller on the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
con man
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fictional character ⓘ former Time Agent ⓘ immortal being ⓘ time traveler ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Time Agency
ⓘ
Torchwood ⓘ
surface form:
Torchwood Three
|
| alsoKnownAs | Captain Jack Harkness ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Who
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Torchwood ⓘ |
| createdBy | Russell T Davies ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceAsIdentity | Torchwood ⓘ |
| franchise |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
BBC Doctor Who franchise
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
immortality
ⓘ
time travel ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationalityInCanon | Boeshane Peninsula native ⓘ |
| occupation |
Time Agent
ⓘ
con man ⓘ |
| origin | 51st century ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Barrowman ⓘ |
| realNameOf | Captain Jack Harkness ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| universe |
Doctor Who expanded universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who universe
|
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: Javic Piotr Thane Description of subject: Javic Piotr Thane is the real name of Captain Jack Harkness, a time-traveling former Time Agent and immortal con man from the Doctor Who and Torchwood television series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Captain Jack Harkness