Katy Manning
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Katy Manning is a British actress best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katy Manning canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3377914 — 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: Katy Manning Context triple: [Terror of the Autons, starsActor, Katy Manning]
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A.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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B.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress best known for playing the beloved Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith across multiple series and spin-offs.
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C.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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D.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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E.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
- 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: Katy Manning Target entity description: Katy Manning is a British actress best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s.
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A.
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is a British actress and author renowned for her extensive work in theatre, television, and film, as well as her appearances as a television presenter and panelist.
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B.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress best known for playing the beloved Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith across multiple series and spin-offs.
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C.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant is a British actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in "L.A. Story" and the miniseries "The Winds of War."
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D.
Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett is an English soprano and media personality known for her operatic performances and popular classical crossover work.
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E.
Joanna Blunt
Joanna Blunt is the mother of British actress Emily Blunt and a member of the Blunt family connected to the entertainment industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Katy Manning Description of subject: Katy Manning is a British actress best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jo Grant
subject surface form:
The Daemons