Mysterious Skin
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Mysterious Skin is a 2004 independent drama film directed by Gregg Araki that explores the long-term psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse on two young men.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mysterious Skin canonical | 9 |
| Mysterious Skin (novel) | 2 |
| Mysterious Skin (2004 film) | 1 |
| Mysterious Skin (novel, 1995) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10795987 — 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: Mysterious Skin Context triple: [Elisabeth Shue, notableWork, Mysterious Skin]
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A.
Beneath the Skin
"Beneath the Skin" is the second studio album by Icelandic indie folk/pop band Of Monsters and Men, known for its atmospheric sound and introspective lyrics.
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B.
Acres of Skin
Acres of Skin is a nonfiction book by Allen M. Hornblum that exposes unethical medical experiments conducted on inmates at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Written on Skin
Written on Skin is a contemporary opera by British composer George Benjamin, acclaimed for its innovative score and emotionally intense exploration of power, desire, and violence.
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D.
The Soft Skin
The Soft Skin is a 1964 French drama film by François Truffaut that explores an extramarital affair and its tragic consequences in a restrained, Hitchcock-influenced style.
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E.
Only Skin
"Only Skin" is an extended, multi-part folk song by Joanna Newsom from her acclaimed 2006 album *Ys*, known for its intricate lyrics and expansive composition.
- 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: Mysterious Skin Target entity description: Mysterious Skin is a 2004 independent drama film directed by Gregg Araki that explores the long-term psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse on two young men.
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A.
Beneath the Skin
"Beneath the Skin" is the second studio album by Icelandic indie folk/pop band Of Monsters and Men, known for its atmospheric sound and introspective lyrics.
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B.
Acres of Skin
Acres of Skin is a nonfiction book by Allen M. Hornblum that exposes unethical medical experiments conducted on inmates at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Written on Skin
Written on Skin is a contemporary opera by British composer George Benjamin, acclaimed for its innovative score and emotionally intense exploration of power, desire, and violence.
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D.
The Soft Skin
The Soft Skin is a 1964 French drama film by François Truffaut that explores an extramarital affair and its tragic consequences in a restrained, Hitchcock-influenced style.
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E.
Only Skin
"Only Skin" is an extended, multi-part folk song by Joanna Newsom from her acclaimed 2006 album *Ys*, known for its intricate lyrics and expansive composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Mysterious Skin Description of subject: Mysterious Skin is a 2004 independent drama film directed by Gregg Araki that explores the long-term psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse on two young men.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mysterious Skin
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)
linked to: Mysterious Skin
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)
linked to: Mysterious Skin
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)
linked to: Mysterious Skin
subject linked to:
Mysterious Skin (character: Brian Lackey)