David Brierley
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David Brierley was a British actor best known for providing the voice of the robot dog K-9 in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Brierley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3378469 — 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: David Brierley Context triple: [K-9, voicedBy, David Brierley]
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
James Bowler
James Bowler is a senior British civil servant who serves as the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, overseeing the UK government's economic and financial administration.
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C.
Andrew Bennison
Andrew Bennison was an American screenwriter active during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Geoffrey Beevers
Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his chilling portrayal of the villainous Time Lord known as the Master.
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E.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
- 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: David Brierley Target entity description: David Brierley was a British actor best known for providing the voice of the robot dog K-9 in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
James Bowler
James Bowler is a senior British civil servant who serves as the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, overseeing the UK government's economic and financial administration.
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C.
Andrew Bennison
Andrew Bennison was an American screenwriter active during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Geoffrey Beevers
Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his chilling portrayal of the villainous Time Lord known as the Master.
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E.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who (classic series)
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| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television acting
ⓘ
voice acting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociationWith |
BBC
ⓘ
K-9 ⓘ
surface form:
K-9 (Doctor Who character)
|
| hasRole | voice of K-9 ⓘ |
| knownFor | voicing K-9 in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacterVoiced | K-9 ⓘ |
| notableFor | classic Doctor Who era ⓘ |
| notableWork | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who cast
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| performerIn | British television ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | television actor ⓘ |
| voiceRole | K-9 ⓘ |
| workedOn | Doctor Who ⓘ |
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: David Brierley Description of subject: David Brierley was a British actor best known for providing the voice of the robot dog K-9 in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.