Shobogan
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The Shobogan are a lesser-known indigenous people of Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, often portrayed as non-Time Lord Gallifreyans living outside the elite Time Lord society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shobogan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T671558 — 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: Shobogan Context triple: [Gallifrey, inhabitant, Shobogan]
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A.
Sibi
Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
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B.
Potohari
Potohari is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in the Potohar Plateau region of northern Pakistan, including areas around Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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C.
Sachkhere
Sachkhere is a town in western Georgia known as a local administrative and economic center in the Imereti region.
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D.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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E.
Kareli
Kareli is a town in central Georgia that serves as an important local center within the Shida Kartli region.
- 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: Shobogan Target entity description: The Shobogan are a lesser-known indigenous people of Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, often portrayed as non-Time Lord Gallifreyans living outside the elite Time Lord society.
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A.
Sibi
Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
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B.
Potohari
Potohari is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in the Potohar Plateau region of northern Pakistan, including areas around Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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C.
Sachkhere
Sachkhere is a town in western Georgia known as a local administrative and economic center in the Imereti region.
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D.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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E.
Kareli
Kareli is a town in central Georgia that serves as an important local center within the Shida Kartli region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doctor Who race
ⓘ
fictional ethnic group ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Who audio dramas
ⓘ
Doctor Who expanded universe ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who novels
Doctor Who reference books ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
class divisions on Gallifrey
ⓘ
indigenous rights allegory ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | partially expanded-universe canon ⓘ |
| cultureComparedToTimeLords |
less formal
ⓘ
more rustic ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Time Lord
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lords
|
| fandomContext | obscure Gallifreyan group ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| firstMentionedIn |
Doctor Who expanded universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who expanded universe material
|
| governedBy |
High Council of the Time Lords
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lord High Council (indirectly)
|
| homeworld | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| language | Gallifreyan ⓘ |
| livesOutside |
Citadel of the Time Lords
ⓘ
surface form:
Citadel of Gallifrey
Time Lord society ⓘ |
| medium | television tie-in material ⓘ |
| originatedAs | background worldbuilding element for Gallifrey ⓘ |
| planetaryOrigin | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
less technologically advanced than Time Lords
ⓘ
socially marginalized on Gallifrey ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Time Lord
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lords
|
| settingType | science fiction ⓘ |
| socialStatus | non-Time Lord Gallifreyans ⓘ |
| societalRole | indigenous Gallifreyan population ⓘ |
| speciesType | Gallifreyan ⓘ |
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: Shobogan Description of subject: The Shobogan are a lesser-known indigenous people of Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, often portrayed as non-Time Lord Gallifreyans living outside the elite Time Lord society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.