Caroline John
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Caroline John was a British actress best known for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Liz Shaw in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caroline John canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9920070 — 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: Caroline John Context triple: [Geoffrey Beevers, spouse, Caroline John]
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A.
Caroline Pearson
Caroline Pearson was the wife of English postal reformer Rowland Hill, known primarily through her association with his pioneering work on the modern postal system.
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B.
Caroline Graham
Caroline Graham is a British crime novelist best known for creating the Chief Inspector Barnaby books that inspired the television series "Midsomer Murders."
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C.
Caroline Black
Caroline Black is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Black.
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D.
Caroline Ross
Caroline Ross is a film editor known for her work on the science fiction movie "Starship Troopers."
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E.
Caroline Fry
Caroline Fry was a 19th-century English Christian writer and moralist known for her religious essays and devotional works.
- 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: Caroline John Target entity description: Caroline John was a British actress best known for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Liz Shaw in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Caroline Pearson
Caroline Pearson was the wife of English postal reformer Rowland Hill, known primarily through her association with his pioneering work on the modern postal system.
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B.
Caroline Graham
Caroline Graham is a British crime novelist best known for creating the Chief Inspector Barnaby books that inspired the television series "Midsomer Murders."
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C.
Caroline Black
Caroline Black is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Black.
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D.
Caroline Ross
Caroline Ross is a film editor known for her work on the science fiction movie "Starship Troopers."
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E.
Caroline Fry
Caroline Fry was a 19th-century English Christian writer and moralist known for her religious essays and devotional works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Doctor Who
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doctor Who: Inferno NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Who: The Silurians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Caroline Frances John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith | Jon Pertwee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-10-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-06-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Central School of Speech and Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ben Beevers
NERFINISHED
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Daisy Ashford NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Beevers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoleType | companion in Doctor Who ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Caroline John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Liz Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCompanionOf | Third Doctor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Liz Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedInAudio | Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio dramas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Geoffrey Beevers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | Doctor Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
British film
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British television ⓘ British theatre ⓘ |
| workedWith | BBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Caroline John Description of subject: Caroline John was a British actress best known for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Liz Shaw in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Spearhead from Space
subject surface form:
Spearhead from Space