The Box
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The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Box canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711128 — 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 Box Context triple: [TARDIS, alsoKnownAs, The Box]
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A.
The Toy
The Toy is a 1982 comedy film starring Richard Pryor as a man hired by a wealthy businessman to be a spoiled rich child's "live" plaything, exploring themes of race, class, and exploitation through slapstick humor.
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B.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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C.
The Square Peg
The Square Peg is a 1958 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a road repairman who is mistaken for a top German general during World War II.
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D.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- 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 Box Target entity description: The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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A.
The Toy
The Toy is a 1982 comedy film starring Richard Pryor as a man hired by a wealthy businessman to be a spoiled rich child's "live" plaything, exploring themes of race, class, and exploitation through slapstick humor.
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B.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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C.
The Square Peg
The Square Peg is a 1958 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a road repairman who is mistaken for a top German general during World War II.
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D.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional spacecraft
ⓘ
Fictional time machine ⓘ Object in the Doctor Who universe ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | The Doctor ⓘ |
| canCloakAs | Different exterior forms (chameleon circuit, often stuck as police box) ⓘ |
| canTravelTo |
Distant planets
ⓘ
Future ⓘ Parallel dimensions (in some stories) ⓘ Past ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstMedium | Television ⓘ |
| genre | Science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternateDesignation | Time And Relative Dimension In Space ⓘ |
| hasControlRoom |
TARDIS
ⓘ
surface form:
TARDIS console room
|
| hasCulturalStatus | Icon of British popular culture ⓘ |
| hasExteriorAppearance | Blue British police box ⓘ |
| hasExteriorColor | Blue ⓘ |
| hasExteriorType | Police telephone box ⓘ |
| hasForm |
Spaceship
ⓘ
Time machine ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
Interdimensional travel
ⓘ
Space travel ⓘ Time travel ⓘ |
| hasInteriorFeature |
Library
ⓘ
Multiple rooms and corridors ⓘ Swimming pool ⓘ Wardrobe room ⓘ |
| hasInteriorProperty | Bigger on the inside ⓘ |
| hasLanguageVariant |
Time And Relative Dimension In Space
ⓘ
surface form:
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
|
| hasNicknameFor | TARDIS ⓘ |
| hasOwner | The Doctor ⓘ |
| hasPowerSource |
Eye of Harmony
ⓘ
surface form:
Eye of Harmony (in many continuities)
|
| hasSecurityFeature |
Perception filter
ⓘ
Telepathic circuits ⓘ |
| hasSentience | Yes ⓘ |
| hasTransportRole | Transport for the Doctor and companions ⓘ |
| homeworldTechnology | Gallifrey ⓘ |
| isCentralTo | Doctor Who narrative ⓘ |
| isIconicElementOf | Doctor Who ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | Plot device enabling episodic travel to varied settings ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
British television series Doctor Who
|
| primaryPilot | The Doctor ⓘ |
| relationshipToDoctor | Companion-like entity ⓘ |
| technologyOf |
Time Lord
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lords
|
| universe | Doctor Who universe ⓘ |
| usedBy | The Doctor ⓘ |
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 Box Description of subject: The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.