TARDIS
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The TARDIS is the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spacecraft and time machine, famous for its blue British police box exterior and vast, advanced interior.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120021 — 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: TARDIS Context triple: [Doctor Who, notableElement, TARDIS]
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A.
Time Lord
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Titan
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, known for its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere and hydrocarbon lakes.
- 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: TARDIS Target entity description: The TARDIS is the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spacecraft and time machine, famous for its blue British police box exterior and vast, advanced interior.
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A.
Time Lord
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Titan
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, known for its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere and hydrocarbon lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional time machine
ⓘ
Fictional vehicle ⓘ Object from Doctor Who ⓘ Spacecraft ⓘ Time-travel device ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Box
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TARDIS ⓘ
surface form:
The Doctor’s TARDIS
The Ship ⓘ |
| capability |
Cloaking via perception filter
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Environmental shielding ⓘ Faster-than-light travel ⓘ Telepathic interface ⓘ Time travel ⓘ Time vortex navigation ⓘ Translation of languages ⓘ Travel in space ⓘ Travel in time ⓘ |
| controlRoomFeature |
Central console
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Time rotor ⓘ |
| creator |
C. E. Webber
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Donald Wilson ⓘ Sydney Newman ⓘ |
| exteriorColor | Blue ⓘ |
| exteriorFeature |
POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX sign
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St. John Ambulance badge ⓘ |
| exteriorForm | Blue British police box ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | An Unearthly Child ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| fullName | Time And Relative Dimension In Space ⓘ |
| hasPersonality | Quirky ⓘ |
| hasProperty | Bigger on the inside ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Real British police boxes ⓘ |
| interiorFeature |
Corridors
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Library ⓘ Swimming pool ⓘ Wardrobe room ⓘ |
| interiorProperty | Dimensionally transcendental ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Time Lord
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lords
|
| model |
TARDIS
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Type 40 TARDIS
|
| nationalityOfExteriorDesign | British ⓘ |
| originPlanet | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| ownershipStatus | Stolen from the Time Lords by the Doctor ⓘ |
| powerSource | Eye of Harmony ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
The Doctor
|
| relationship | Companion to the Doctor ⓘ |
| sentience | Sentient ⓘ |
| signaturePhraseAssociated | Bigger on the inside ⓘ |
| signatureSound | Wheezing groaning dematerialisation noise ⓘ |
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: TARDIS Description of subject: The TARDIS is the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spacecraft and time machine, famous for its blue British police box exterior and vast, advanced interior.
Referenced by (118)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
TARDIS structural integrity field
subject surface form:
The End of the World (Doctor Who, 2005)
this entity surface form:
The TARDIS
this entity surface form:
Type 40 TARDIS
subject surface form:
The Rani
this entity surface form:
TARDIS stolen from Gallifrey (with the Doctor)
this entity surface form:
the TARDIS
subject surface form:
Attack of the Cybermen