Terror of the Autons
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Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terror of the Autons canonical | 13 |
| "Terror of the Autons" | 3 |
| Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion | 2 |
| Doctor Who serial "Terror of the Autons" | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566186 — 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: Terror of the Autons Context triple: [The Master, firstAppearance, Terror of the Autons]
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A.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series for younger audiences that follows former Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith as she investigates alien activity on Earth.
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B.
Daleks
The Daleks are a race of ruthless, armored mutants and iconic villains in the Doctor Who universe, known for their cry of "Exterminate!" and their relentless drive to conquer and destroy.
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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.
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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E.
Weeping Angels
The Weeping Angels are a terrifying race of predatory, statue-like creatures in Doctor Who that can only move when unobserved, sending victims back in time and feeding on the resulting temporal energy.
- 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: Terror of the Autons Target entity description: Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
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A.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series for younger audiences that follows former Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith as she investigates alien activity on Earth.
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B.
Daleks
The Daleks are a race of ruthless, armored mutants and iconic villains in the Doctor Who universe, known for their cry of "Exterminate!" and their relentless drive to conquer and destroy.
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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.
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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E.
Weeping Angels
The Weeping Angels are a terrifying race of predatory, statue-like creatures in Doctor Who that can only move when unobserved, sending victims back in time and feeding on the resulting temporal energy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Terror of the Autons Description of subject: Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Doctor Who serial "Terror of the Autons"
this entity surface form:
"Terror of the Autons"
subject surface form:
Jo Grant
subject surface form:
Richard Franklin
this entity surface form:
Doctor Who serial "Terror of the Autons"
this entity surface form:
"Terror of the Autons"
this entity surface form:
"Terror of the Autons"
this entity surface form:
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
subject surface form:
Terrance Dicks
this entity surface form:
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
subject surface form:
The Master (Doctor Who)