Master (Doctor Who)
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The Master is a recurring villain in the Doctor Who universe, a renegade Time Lord and archenemy of the Doctor known for their cunning, ruthlessness, and shifting incarnations.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659878 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Master (Doctor Who) Context triple: [Doctor Who comic strips, featuresCharacter, Master (Doctor Who)]
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The Doctor
The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film starring William Hurt as a successful but emotionally distant surgeon who reevaluates his life and relationships after becoming a patient himself.
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The Doctor
The Doctor is a minor but symbolically significant character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," representing the harsh reality of institutionalization and the collapse of Blanche DuBois's fragile world.
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C.
The Doctor
The Doctor is the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the starship Voyager, an artificial intelligence who evolves into a sentient, multifaceted crew member in Star Trek: Voyager.
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The Doctor
The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," known for regenerating into new forms and protecting the universe from various threats.
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the War Doctor
The War Doctor is a previously unseen incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who universe, portrayed by John Hurt as a battle-hardened Time Lord who fought in the Last Great Time War.
- 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: Master (Doctor Who) Target entity description: The Master is a recurring villain in the Doctor Who universe, a renegade Time Lord and archenemy of the Doctor known for their cunning, ruthlessness, and shifting incarnations.
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A.
The Doctor
The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film starring William Hurt as a successful but emotionally distant surgeon who reevaluates his life and relationships after becoming a patient himself.
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B.
The Doctor
The Doctor is a minor but symbolically significant character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," representing the harsh reality of institutionalization and the collapse of Blanche DuBois's fragile world.
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C.
The Doctor
The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," known for regenerating into new forms and protecting the universe from various threats.
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D.
The Doctor
The Doctor is the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the starship Voyager, an artificial intelligence who evolves into a sentient, multifaceted crew member in Star Trek: Voyager.
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E.
the War Doctor
The War Doctor is a previously unseen incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who universe, portrayed by John Hurt as a battle-hardened Time Lord who fought in the Last Great Time War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doctor Who character
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Time Lord ⓘ fictional character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| ability |
genius-level intellect
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hypnosis ⓘ regeneration ⓘ time travel ⓘ |
| alignment | villainous ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Harold Saxon
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Missy ⓘ The Mistress ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Classic Doctor Who era
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surface form:
Classic Doctor Who series
Doctor Who audio dramas ⓘ Doctor Who comic strips ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who comics
Doctor Who novels ⓘ Doctor Who: The Movie ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who television film (1996)
2005 Doctor Who revival ⓘ
surface form:
Revived Doctor Who series
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| archenemyOf | The Doctor (Doctor Who) ⓘ |
| attended | Time Lord Academy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
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cunning ⓘ manipulative ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Barry Letts
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Terrance Dicks ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Earth
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UNIT ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Terror of the Autons ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| gender | varies by incarnation ⓘ |
| hasIncarnations | multiple regenerations ⓘ |
| homePlanet | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| motivation |
conquest of the universe
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defeating the Doctor ⓘ |
| nationalityInUniverse | Gallifreyan ⓘ |
| occupation | renegade Time Lord ⓘ |
| owns | TARDIS ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Anthony Ainley
NERFINISHED
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Derek Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Roberts ⓘ Geoffrey Beevers ⓘ John Simm ⓘ Michelle Gomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Pratt ⓘ Roger Delgado NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacha Dhawan ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith | The Doctor (Doctor Who) ⓘ |
| species | Time Lord ⓘ |
| universe | Doctor Who ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Master (Doctor Who) Description of subject: The Master is a recurring villain in the Doctor Who universe, a renegade Time Lord and archenemy of the Doctor known for their cunning, ruthlessness, and shifting incarnations.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Master (Doctor Who)
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The Master (Doctor Who)
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Time Lord
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The Master’s assistant (Doctor Who, "Utopia")
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Barry Letts
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The Master (Doctor Who)
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the Master (Missy incarnation)
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Peter Pratt as The Master
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the Master (John Simm incarnation)
Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto
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Master (Doctor Who)
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this entity surface form:
the Master in Doctor Who
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the Master in the television series Doctor Who
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the Master in Doctor Who
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The Master (Doctor Who)
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John Nathan-Turner
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The Master (in 1980s Doctor Who)