Sarah Jane Smith
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Sarah Jane Smith is a beloved Doctor Who companion and investigative journalist who later stars as the lead character in the spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures," where she protects Earth from alien threats alongside young allies.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Jane Smith canonical | 57 |
| Doctor Who character Sarah Jane Smith | 1 |
| Sarah Jane | 1 |
| Sarah Jane Smith (audio) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566240 — 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: Sarah Jane Smith Context triple: [The Sarah Jane Adventures, characterFocus, Sarah Jane Smith]
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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D.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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E.
Joan
Joan is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics and innovative compositions.
- 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: Sarah Jane Smith Target entity description: Sarah Jane Smith is a beloved Doctor Who companion and investigative journalist who later stars as the lead character in the spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures," where she protects Earth from alien threats alongside young allies.
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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D.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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E.
Joan
Joan is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics and innovative compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Sarah Jane Smith Description of subject: Sarah Jane Smith is a beloved Doctor Who companion and investigative journalist who later stars as the lead character in the spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures," where she protects Earth from alien threats alongside young allies.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sarah Jane
subject surface form:
Third Doctor
subject surface form:
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
subject surface form:
Robot (Doctor Who serial)
subject surface form:
Robot (Doctor Who serial)
subject surface form:
Barry Letts
this entity surface form:
Doctor Who character Sarah Jane Smith
subject surface form:
Barry Letts
subject surface form:
The Sarah Jane Adventures
this entity surface form:
Sarah Jane Smith (audio)