Maureen O'Brien
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Maureen O'Brien is a British actress best known for playing the First Doctor’s companion Vicki in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maureen O'Brien canonical | 3 |
| Maureen O'Hare | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3416230 — 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: Maureen O'Brien Context triple: [The Time Meddler, featuresCompanionActor, Maureen O'Brien]
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A.
Lola Kirke
Lola Kirke is an English-American actress and musician best known for her breakout role in the film "Mistress America" and her work in the series "Mozart in the Jungle."
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B.
Patricia O'Sullivan
Patricia O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" series, known for her lively personality and involvement in the boarding school’s adventures and dramas.
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C.
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon was a British-Indian actress best known for her glamorous Hollywood career in the 1930s and 1940s, including acclaimed performances in classic romantic dramas.
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D.
Maureen O’Hara
Maureen O’Hara was a celebrated Irish-American actress known for her fiery red hair, strong-willed screen presence, and classic roles in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Hattie Shaw
Hattie Shaw is a skilled MI6 field agent and the sister of Deckard Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, prominently featured in "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
- 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: Maureen O'Brien Target entity description: Maureen O'Brien is a British actress best known for playing the First Doctor’s companion Vicki in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Lola Kirke
Lola Kirke is an English-American actress and musician best known for her breakout role in the film "Mistress America" and her work in the series "Mozart in the Jungle."
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B.
Patricia O'Sullivan
Patricia O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" series, known for her lively personality and involvement in the boarding school’s adventures and dramas.
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C.
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon was a British-Indian actress best known for her glamorous Hollywood career in the 1930s and 1940s, including acclaimed performances in classic romantic dramas.
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D.
Maureen O’Hara
Maureen O’Hara was a celebrated Irish-American actress known for her fiery red hair, strong-willed screen presence, and classic roles in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Hattie Shaw
Hattie Shaw is a skilled MI6 field agent and the sister of Deckard Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, prominently featured in "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
classic Doctor Who ⓘ |
| characterIsCompanionOf | First Doctor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Brien ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
ⓘ
stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Maureen ⓘ |
| hasFandom | Doctor Who fandom ⓘ |
| hasRole | companion in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing the First Doctor’s companion Vicki in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| name | Maureen O'Brien ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | role as Vicki in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| notableRole | Vicki ⓘ |
| notableWork | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| partOf | Doctor Who cast ⓘ |
| portrayed | Vicki ⓘ |
| workedWith | William Hartnell ⓘ |
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: Maureen O'Brien Description of subject: Maureen O'Brien is a British actress best known for playing the First Doctor’s companion Vicki in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maureen O'Brien