Second Doctor
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The Second Doctor is the incarnation of the Doctor portrayed by Patrick Troughton in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Second Doctor canonical | 52 |
| Second Doctor, Ben, Polly, Jamie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4961293 — 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: Second Doctor Context triple: [Anneke Wills, playedCompanionOf, Second Doctor]
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A.
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is a dashing, scientifically minded incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British sci-fi series "Doctor Who," known for his action-oriented adventures, love of gadgets, and partnership with UNIT in early 1970s stories.
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Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is a long-scarf-wearing, eccentric and witty incarnation of the Doctor from the British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Tom Baker in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
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Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is a youthful, cricket-loving incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by actor Peter Davison.
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E.
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is a cunning and enigmatic incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy.
- 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: Second Doctor Target entity description: The Second Doctor is the incarnation of the Doctor portrayed by Patrick Troughton in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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A.
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is a dashing, scientifically minded incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British sci-fi series "Doctor Who," known for his action-oriented adventures, love of gadgets, and partnership with UNIT in early 1970s stories.
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B.
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is a long-scarf-wearing, eccentric and witty incarnation of the Doctor from the British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Tom Baker in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is a youthful, cricket-loving incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by actor Peter Davison.
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E.
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is a cunning and enigmatic incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Second Doctor Description of subject: The Second Doctor is the incarnation of the Doctor portrayed by Patrick Troughton in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
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Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
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Doctor Who serial "The Invasion"
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Doctor Who season 4
subject linked to:
Doctor Who season 4
subject linked to:
The Great Intelligence in Doctor Who
linked to: Second Doctor
subject linked to:
Missing Adventures series