Time Agency
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The Time Agency is a futuristic organization in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universe responsible for regulating and manipulating time travel, of which Captain Jack Harkness was once a member.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Time Agency canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3892652 — 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: Time Agency Context triple: [Captain Jack Harkness, affiliation, Time Agency]
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A.
Time
Time is a 1995 song by the American rock band Screaming Trees, featured on their album "Dust."
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B.
Time
Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
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C.
Time Lock
Time Lock is a temporal security mechanism in science fiction that seals events or locations outside normal time, preventing interference or alteration from within the time stream.
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D.
Capital and Time
Capital and Time is an influential economic work by John R. Hicks that analyzes the role of capital, interest, and intertemporal choice in dynamic economic theory.
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E.
Time Vaults
Time Vaults are heavily secured chambers on Gallifrey used by the Time Lords to imprison or safeguard dangerous temporal artifacts, entities, and secrets.
- 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: Time Agency Target entity description: The Time Agency is a futuristic organization in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universe responsible for regulating and manipulating time travel, of which Captain Jack Harkness was once a member.
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A.
Time
Time is a 1995 song by the American rock band Screaming Trees, featured on their album "Dust."
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B.
Time
Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
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C.
Time Lock
Time Lock is a temporal security mechanism in science fiction that seals events or locations outside normal time, preventing interference or alteration from within the time stream.
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D.
Capital and Time
Capital and Time is an influential economic work by John R. Hicks that analyzes the role of capital, interest, and intertemporal choice in dynamic economic theory.
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E.
Time Vaults
Time Vaults are heavily secured chambers on Gallifrey used by the Time Lords to imprison or safeguard dangerous temporal artifacts, entities, and secrets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional organization
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time-travel agency ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode |
Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances
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Doctor Who: The Empty Child ⓘ Torchwood: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Captain Jack Harkness
ⓘ
John Hart ⓘ The Doctor ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization |
Torchwood
ⓘ
surface form:
Torchwood Institute
|
| associatedSeries | Torchwood ⓘ |
| controls | access to time travel technology ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Russell T Davies ⓘ |
| employs | time agents ⓘ |
| ethicalStatus | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Doctor Who expanded universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who universe
Torchwood ⓘ
surface form:
Torchwood universe
|
| firstAppearanceSeries |
Doctor Who series 1 (2005)
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surface form:
Doctor Who (2005 TV series)
|
| formerMember |
Captain Jack Harkness
ⓘ
John Hart ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
field agents
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operatives ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | unspecified future time period ⓘ |
| inUniverseStatus | secret organization ⓘ |
| knownFor |
covert temporal missions
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erasing agents’ memories ⓘ morally ambiguous operations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
background to Captain Jack Harkness’s history
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source of time-travel technology in Doctor Who and Torchwood ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Captain Jack Harkness
ⓘ
John Hart ⓘ |
| operationalMethod |
altering historical events
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deploying agents across time ⓘ |
| operationalScope |
interstellar
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intertemporal ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | television ⓘ |
| responsibility |
enforcing temporal law
ⓘ
manipulating time travel ⓘ monitoring temporal anomalies ⓘ protecting the timeline ⓘ regulating time travel ⓘ |
| subjectOf | expanded universe stories ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 51st century ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
advanced surveillance systems
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time travel devices ⓘ time vortex manipulators ⓘ |
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: Time Agency Description of subject: The Time Agency is a futuristic organization in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universe responsible for regulating and manipulating time travel, of which Captain Jack Harkness was once a member.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Captain Jack Harkness