the War Doctor
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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.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566159 — 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)
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Target entity: the War Doctor Context triple: [Time Lord, notableMember, the War Doctor]
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Time Lord
A Time Lord is a fictional, time-traveling humanoid species from the planet Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, known for their ability to regenerate and their mastery of time and space.
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Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
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Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
- 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: the War Doctor Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Time Lord
A Time Lord is a fictional, time-traveling humanoid species from the planet Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, known for their ability to regenerate and their mastery of time and space.
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B.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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C.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
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D.
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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E.
Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: the War Doctor Description of subject: 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.
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War Doctor destroying Gallifrey
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The Day of the Doctor
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The Day of the Doctor
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The Night of the Doctor
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The Night of the Doctor
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The Night of the Doctor
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John Hurt as the War Doctor
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John Hurt
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Sebastian Eccleston (young War Doctor, uncredited)
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