Simon Skinner
E179836
Simon Skinner is a sinister supermarket manager and secret villain in the British action-comedy film "Hot Fuzz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Skinner canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1578833 — 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: Simon Skinner Context triple: [Timothy Dalton, portrayed, Simon Skinner]
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A.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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B.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential geometry and topology, particularly the study of smooth four-dimensional manifolds.
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C.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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D.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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E.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
- 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: Simon Skinner Target entity description: Simon Skinner is a sinister supermarket manager and secret villain in the British action-comedy film "Hot Fuzz."
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A.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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B.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential geometry and topology, particularly the study of smooth four-dimensional manifolds.
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C.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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D.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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E.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| alignment | secret villain ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
Danny Butterman
ⓘ
Nicholas Angel ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hot Fuzz ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Neighborhood Watch Alliance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Edgar Wright
ⓘ
Nick Frost ⓘ Simon Pegg ⓘ |
| employer | Somerset supermarket Somerfield analogue (Sandford supermarket) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Hot Fuzz (2007)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hot Fuzz
|
| genreOfWork | action comedy film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGenre | black comedy villain ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| motivation | preserving Sandford’s image of perfection ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly humorous one-liners
ⓘ
sinister and charming demeanor ⓘ |
| occupation | supermarket manager ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hot Fuzz cast of characters
ⓘ
The Cornetto Trilogy characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Timothy Dalton ⓘ |
| residence | Sandford ⓘ |
| workLocation | Sandford ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2007 ⓘ |
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: Simon Skinner Description of subject: Simon Skinner is a sinister supermarket manager and secret villain in the British action-comedy film "Hot Fuzz."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Somerset supermarket Somerfield analogue (Sandford supermarket)
subject linked to:
Somerset supermarket Somerfield analogue (Sandford supermarket)