Time Lord
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A Time Lord is a fictional, time-traveling humanoid species from the planet Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, known for their ability to regenerate and their mastery of time and space.
All labels observed (20)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120018 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Time Lord Context triple: [Doctor Who, featuresSpecies, Time Lord]
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A.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
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Gallifrey
Gallifrey is the fictional home planet of the Time Lords in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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D.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
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E.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
- 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: Time Lord Target entity description: A Time Lord is a fictional, time-traveling humanoid species from the planet Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, known for their ability to regenerate and their mastery of time and space.
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A.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
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B.
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is the fictional home planet of the Time Lords in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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D.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
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E.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doctor Who species
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fictional species ⓘ humanoid species ⓘ time-traveling species ⓘ |
| ability |
non-linear time perception
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regeneration ⓘ time manipulation ⓘ time travel ⓘ use of TARDIS technology ⓘ |
| capitalCity |
Capitol
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Citadel of the Time Lords ⓘ |
| chapter |
Arcalian Chapter
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Cerulean Chapter ⓘ Patrex Chapter ⓘ Prydonian Chapter ⓘ Scendles Chapter ⓘ |
| conflict | Last Great Time War ⓘ |
| creatorInUniverse |
Omega
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Time Lord self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rassilon
the Other ⓘ |
| culture | non-interference policy ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
ability to change personality on regeneration
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ability to change physical appearance on regeneration ⓘ binary vascular system ⓘ extended lifespan ⓘ regenerative biology ⓘ resistance to many human diseases ⓘ resistance to radiation ⓘ two hearts ⓘ |
| education | Time Lord Academy initiation at young age ⓘ |
| enemy |
Cybermen
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Daleks ⓘ Time Lords opposed to the Doctor ⓘ Weeping Angels ⓘ |
| fictionalMedium | television series ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | The Time Meddler ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| galacticLocation |
Kasterborous constellation
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Kasterborous constellation ⓘ
surface form:
Kasterborous system
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| government |
Time Lord
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
High Council of Time Lords
|
| homeworld | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
Eye of Harmony
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Matrix (Time Lord data store) ⓘ Seal of Rassilon ⓘ
surface form:
Rassilon Imprimatur
Regeneration Cycle ⓘ Time Vortex ⓘ |
| language | Gallifreyan ⓘ |
| law |
Laws of Time
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surface form:
First Law of Time
Laws of Time ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central species in Doctor Who mythology ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Omega
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Time Lord self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rassilon
Romana ⓘ the Corsair ⓘ Doctor Who ⓘ
surface form:
the Doctor
The Master ⓘ
surface form:
the Master
the Rani ⓘ the War Doctor ⓘ |
| organization |
Citadel of the Time Lords
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surface form:
Time Lord Academy
|
| planetRegion | Continent of Wild Endeavour ⓘ |
| publisher | BBC ⓘ |
| regenerationLimit |
13 incarnations
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originally 12 regenerations ⓘ |
| regenerationRetcon | limit later extended in canon ⓘ |
| socialStructure |
Chapters
ⓘ
Houses ⓘ |
| statusInCanon | often considered extinct after the Time War ⓘ |
| symbol | Seal of Rassilon ⓘ |
| technology |
TARDIS
ⓘ
time capsule ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Time Lord Description of subject: A Time Lord is a fictional, time-traveling humanoid species from the planet Gallifrey in the Doctor Who universe, known for their ability to regenerate and their mastery of time and space.
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