The Ship
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The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ship canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711127 — 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: The Ship Context triple: [TARDIS, alsoKnownAs, The Ship]
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A.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
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B.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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C.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
Sea Venture
Sea Venture was the flagship of the Virginia Company fleet that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609, an event that influenced the early history of English colonization in America and is often cited as an inspiration for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
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E.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
- 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: The Ship Target entity description: The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
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B.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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C.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
Sea Venture
Sea Venture was the flagship of the Virginia Company fleet that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609, an event that influenced the early history of English colonization in America and is often cited as an inspiration for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
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E.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional spacecraft
ⓘ
fictional time machine ⓘ nickname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
the Doctor’s ship
ⓘ
TARDIS ⓘ
surface form:
the TARDIS
|
| appearsIn | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
companions of the Doctor
ⓘ
regeneration of the Doctor ⓘ time vortex ⓘ |
| capability |
travel between dimensions
ⓘ
travel through space ⓘ travel through time ⓘ |
| controllingCharacter | The Doctor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exteriorAppearance | police box ⓘ |
| fandomUsage |
informal nickname used by fans
ⓘ
informal nickname used in dialogue ⓘ |
| function |
space travel
ⓘ
time travel ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasInteriorProperty | bigger on the inside ⓘ |
| hasPersonality | sentient ⓘ |
| homeworldOfTechnology | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
companion-like entity
ⓘ
plot device ⓘ |
| originatedAs | Time Lord time capsule ⓘ |
| refersTo | TARDIS ⓘ |
| relationshipToDoctor |
home
ⓘ
partner in adventures ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| role | primary setting for many Doctor Who stories ⓘ |
| technologyOfOrigin | Time Lord technology ⓘ |
| universe |
Doctor Who expanded universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who universe
|
| usedBy |
The Doctor
ⓘ
Time Lord ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lords
|
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: The Ship Description of subject: The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.