Peter Davison
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Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Davison canonical | 11 |
| Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659914 — 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: Peter Davison Context triple: [Earthshock, starsActorAsDoctor, Peter Davison]
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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D.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
- 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: Peter Davison Target entity description: Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for playing the Eighth Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who and for his roles in films such as "Withnail and I."
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D.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Peter Davison Description of subject: Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor
subject surface form:
John Nathan-Turner