Sheila Troughton
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Sheila Troughton was the wife of British actor Patrick Troughton, known for his role as the Second Doctor in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheila Troughton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10809432 — 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: Sheila Troughton Context triple: [Patrick Troughton, spouse, Sheila Troughton]
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A.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress best known for playing the beloved Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith across multiple series and spin-offs.
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B.
Katy Manning
Katy Manning is a British actress best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s.
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C.
Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg was an acclaimed English actress best known for her roles as Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series "The Avengers" and Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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E.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
- 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: Sheila Troughton Target entity description: Sheila Troughton was the wife of British actor Patrick Troughton, known for his role as the Second Doctor in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress best known for playing the beloved Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith across multiple series and spin-offs.
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B.
Katy Manning
Katy Manning is a British actress best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s.
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C.
Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg was an acclaimed English actress best known for her roles as Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series "The Avengers" and Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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E.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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human ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| name | Sheila Troughton ⓘ |
| notableWork | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC ⓘ |
| portrayed | Second Doctor ⓘ |
| spouse |
Patrick Troughton
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Sheila Troughton ⓘ |
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: Sheila Troughton Description of subject: Sheila Troughton was the wife of British actor Patrick Troughton, known for his role as the Second Doctor in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.