Richard Hurndall
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Richard Hurndall was an English actor best known to Doctor Who fans for portraying the First Doctor in the 20th-anniversary special "The Five Doctors" after William Hartnell's death.
All labels observed (1)
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| Richard Hurndall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16465907 — 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: Richard Hurndall Context triple: [The Five Doctors, featuresActor, Richard Hurndall]
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A.
Geoffrey Hinchliffe
Geoffrey Hinchliffe is an actor best known for his role in the British film "Made in Britain."
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B.
Nathaniel Hutton
Nathaniel Hutton was an American shipbuilder known for constructing the early U.S. Navy frigate USS Philadelphia.
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C.
Richard Pendlebury
Richard Pendlebury was a 19th-century British mountaineer noted for pioneering ascents in the Alps, including major peaks in the Pennine range.
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D.
Francis Hargrave
Francis Hargrave was an 18th-century English lawyer and legal scholar best known for his influential arguments against slavery in the landmark Somerset v Stewart case.
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E.
Edmund Haroldson
Edmund Haroldson was an 11th-century English nobleman, known primarily as one of the sons of King Harold Godwinson and his consort Edith Swannesha.
- 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: Richard Hurndall Target entity description: Richard Hurndall was an English actor best known to Doctor Who fans for portraying the First Doctor in the 20th-anniversary special "The Five Doctors" after William Hartnell's death.
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A.
Geoffrey Hinchliffe
Geoffrey Hinchliffe is an actor best known for his role in the British film "Made in Britain."
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B.
Nathaniel Hutton
Nathaniel Hutton was an American shipbuilder known for constructing the early U.S. Navy frigate USS Philadelphia.
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C.
Richard Pendlebury
Richard Pendlebury was a 19th-century British mountaineer noted for pioneering ascents in the Alps, including major peaks in the Pennine range.
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D.
Francis Hargrave
Francis Hargrave was an 18th-century English lawyer and legal scholar best known for his influential arguments against slavery in the landmark Somerset v Stewart case.
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E.
Edmund Haroldson
Edmund Haroldson was an 11th-century English nobleman, known primarily as one of the sons of King Harold Godwinson and his consort Edith Swannesha.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.