Professor Marius
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Professor Marius is a character in the Doctor Who universe known as the scientist who created the robotic dog K-9.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Professor Marius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3378433 — 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: Professor Marius Context triple: [K-9, creatorInUniverse, Professor Marius]
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A.
Dr. Minoret
Dr. Minoret is a central fictional physician in Honoré de Balzac’s "Scènes de la vie de province," notable for embodying the social and moral tensions of provincial French life in the 19th century.
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B.
Doctor Subtilis
Doctor Subtilis is the traditional scholastic honorific given to the medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, renowned for his exceptionally subtle and complex metaphysical and logical thought.
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C.
Professor Unrat
Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
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D.
Professor Maximilian Arturo
Professor Maximilian Arturo is a brilliant but often pompous physics professor and one of the original dimension-traveling protagonists from the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
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E.
Dr. Scarabus
Dr. Scarabus is the powerful and sinister sorcerer antagonist in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
- 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: Professor Marius Target entity description: Professor Marius is a character in the Doctor Who universe known as the scientist who created the robotic dog K-9.
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A.
Dr. Minoret
Dr. Minoret is a central fictional physician in Honoré de Balzac’s "Scènes de la vie de province," notable for embodying the social and moral tensions of provincial French life in the 19th century.
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B.
Doctor Subtilis
Doctor Subtilis is the traditional scholastic honorific given to the medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, renowned for his exceptionally subtle and complex metaphysical and logical thought.
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C.
Professor Unrat
Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
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D.
Professor Maximilian Arturo
Professor Maximilian Arturo is a brilliant but often pompous physics professor and one of the original dimension-traveling protagonists from the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
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E.
Dr. Scarabus
Dr. Scarabus is the powerful and sinister sorcerer antagonist in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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scientist ⓘ |
| affiliation | Bi-Al Foundation space hospital ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Who
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The Invisible Enemy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fourth Doctor
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Leela ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| created | K-9 ⓘ |
| createdCharacter |
K-9
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surface form:
K-9 Mark I
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| createdFor |
assistance in scientific work
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companionship ⓘ |
| employer | Bi-Al Foundation ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseDebut | The Invisible Enemy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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robotics ⓘ |
| franchise | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| gaveTo | Fourth Doctor ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| notableWork | creation of K-9 ⓘ |
| occupation | scientist ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| universe |
Doctor Who expanded universe
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surface form:
Doctor Who universe
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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: Professor Marius Description of subject: Professor Marius is a character in the Doctor Who universe known as the scientist who created the robotic dog K-9.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.