Tom Baker
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Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Baker canonical | 31 |
| Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor | 1 |
| the Fourth Doctor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T983431 — 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: Tom Baker Context triple: [Baker, hasNotableBearer, Tom Baker]
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A.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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B.
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
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C.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart is an acclaimed English actor best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series.
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E.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- 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: Tom Baker Target entity description: Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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A.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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B.
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
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C.
Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart is an acclaimed English actor best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series.
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E.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
audio drama
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film ⓘ television ⓘ voice-over work ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British science fiction television
ⓘ
Doctor Who fandom ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Television Award (special recognition for Doctor Who) ⓘ |
| characterRole |
The Doctor
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lord known as the Doctor
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | BBC ⓘ |
| familyName | Baker ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Doctor Who story "City of Death"
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surface form:
Doctor Who serial "City of Death"
Genesis of the Daleks ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who serial "Genesis of the Daleks"
Doctor Who serial "Logopolis" ⓘ Doctor Who serial "Pyramids of Mars" ⓘ Doctor Who serial "The Ark in Space" ⓘ Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who serial "The Deadly Assassin"
Doctor Who serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" ⓘ |
| influenced | later portrayals of the Doctor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Baker self-link ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
curly hair (during Doctor Who era)
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distinctive deep voice ⓘ long scarf (as the Fourth Doctor) ⓘ |
| notableFor | iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
Doctor Who 50th anniversary-related appearances ⓘ Doctor Who audio dramas ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who audio dramas (Big Finish Productions)
Little Britain (narration) ⓘ Narration for Little Britain ⓘ Narration for comedy series Come Fly with Me ⓘ Nicholas and Alexandra ⓘ The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who television series
|
| portrayed |
Fourth Doctor
ⓘ
Koura in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ⓘ Nicholas and Alexandra ⓘ
surface form:
Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra
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| positionHeld |
Fourth Doctor
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surface form:
Fourth incarnation of the Doctor
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Tom Baker Description of subject: Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
this entity surface form:
the Fourth Doctor
subject surface form:
City of Death
subject surface form:
Shada
subject surface form:
Robot (Doctor Who serial)
subject surface form:
Robot (Doctor Who serial)
this entity surface form:
Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
subject surface form:
The Day of the Doctor
subject surface form:
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