Mike Skinner
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Mike Skinner is an English musician and producer best known as the frontman and creative force behind the music project The Streets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Skinner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3829998 — 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: Mike Skinner Context triple: [The Time of Angels, starring, Mike Skinner]
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A.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
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B.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
John Boy Power
John Boy Power is a ruthless Dublin gang leader and central antagonist in the Irish crime drama series "Love/Hate."
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E.
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis is an American producer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the indie rock band Bright Eyes and numerous Saddle Creek Records artists.
- 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: Mike Skinner Target entity description: Mike Skinner is an English musician and producer best known as the frontman and creative force behind the music project The Streets.
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A.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
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B.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
John Boy Power
John Boy Power is a ruthless Dublin gang leader and central antagonist in the Irish crime drama series "Love/Hate."
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E.
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis is an American producer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the indie rock band Bright Eyes and numerous Saddle Creek Records artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | late 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Birmingham (early life and career)
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London (music career) ⓘ |
| birthName | Michael Geoffrey Skinner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
UK garage
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alternative hip hop ⓘ electronic music ⓘ grime ⓘ hip hop ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
The Streets (as recording alias/project name)
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linked to:
The Streets
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| hasCreativeRole |
primary songwriter for The Streets
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producer for The Streets ⓘ vocalist for The Streets ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
British hip hop
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UK garage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
depicting British urban life in lyrics
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innovative production in UK garage and hip hop ⓘ narrative lyrical style ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Streets ⓘ |
| name | Mike Skinner ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Grand Don’t Come for Free
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Computers and Blues ⓘ Everything Is Borrowed ⓘ Original Pirate Material ⓘ The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living ⓘ The Streets ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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musician ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
679 Recordings
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Atlantic Records ⓘ Locked On Records ⓘ Vice Records ⓘ |
| role |
creative force behind The Streets
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frontman of The Streets ⓘ |
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: Mike Skinner Description of subject: Mike Skinner is an English musician and producer best known as the frontman and creative force behind the music project The Streets.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Time of Angels"