An Unearthly Child
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An Unearthly Child is the very first episode of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, introducing the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and the TARDIS.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| An Unearthly Child canonical | 13 |
| 100,000 BC / An Unearthly Child | 1 |
| An Unearthly Child (serial) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711130 — 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: An Unearthly Child Context triple: [TARDIS, firstAppearance, An Unearthly Child]
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A.
The Tenth Planet
"The Tenth Planet" is a 1966 Doctor Who serial from the show's fourth season, notable for introducing the Cybermen and featuring the First Doctor's regeneration.
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B.
Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
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C.
Rise of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Cybermen in an alternate universe, depicting their chilling origin as emotionless cyborgs.
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D.
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Tomb of the Cybermen is a classic 1967 Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor uncovering a long-buried Cyberman hibernation chamber on the planet Telos.
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E.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series for younger audiences that follows former Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith as she investigates alien activity on Earth.
- 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: An Unearthly Child Target entity description: An Unearthly Child is the very first episode of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, introducing the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and the TARDIS.
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A.
The Tenth Planet
"The Tenth Planet" is a 1966 Doctor Who serial from the show's fourth season, notable for introducing the Cybermen and featuring the First Doctor's regeneration.
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B.
Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
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C.
Rise of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen is a 2006 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Cybermen in an alternate universe, depicting their chilling origin as emotionless cyborgs.
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D.
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Tomb of the Cybermen is a classic 1967 Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor uncovering a long-buried Cyberman hibernation chamber on the planet Telos.
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E.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series for younger audiences that follows former Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith as she investigates alien activity on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: An Unearthly Child Description of subject: An Unearthly Child is the very first episode of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, introducing the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and the TARDIS.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
100,000 BC / An Unearthly Child
subject surface form:
An Unearthly Child
subject surface form:
An Unearthly Child
this entity surface form:
An Unearthly Child (serial)