Skins
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Skins is a British teen drama television series known for its raw, controversial portrayal of adolescence and its rotating ensemble cast.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skins canonical | 18 |
| Skins (American TV series) | 1 |
| Skins (E4 television series) | 1 |
| Skins (TV series) | 1 |
| Skins (series 1 episodes) | 1 |
| Skins (series 2 episodes) | 1 |
| Skins Fire | 1 |
| Skins Pure | 1 |
| Skins Redux | 1 |
| Skins Rise | 1 |
| Skins series 1 | 1 |
| Skins series 1 episode 1 | 1 |
| Skins series 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1809124 — 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: Skins Context triple: [Lucy Kirkwood, notableWork, Skins]
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A.
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.
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B.
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a groundbreaking drama series that follows the lives and relationships of a group of gay friends, known for its candid portrayal of LGBTQ+ culture and issues.
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C.
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is an ABC Family teen drama series that follows the complicated personal, social, and family consequences of a high school girl's unexpected pregnancy.
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D.
The Hills
The Hills is an artificial parkland on Governors Island in New York Harbor featuring landscaped slopes, walking paths, and elevated viewpoints of the city skyline and Statue of Liberty.
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E.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
- 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: Skins Target entity description: Skins is a British teen drama television series known for its raw, controversial portrayal of adolescence and its rotating ensemble cast.
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A.
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.
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B.
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a groundbreaking drama series that follows the lives and relationships of a group of gay friends, known for its candid portrayal of LGBTQ+ culture and issues.
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C.
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is an ABC Family teen drama series that follows the complicated personal, social, and family consequences of a high school girl's unexpected pregnancy.
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D.
The Hills
The Hills is an artificial parkland on Governors Island in New York Harbor featuring landscaped slopes, walking paths, and elevated viewpoints of the city skyline and Statue of Liberty.
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E.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
teen drama television series
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| airedOnService |
Channel 4
ⓘ
surface form:
Channel 4 (via E4)
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Bryan Elsley
ⓘ
Jamie Brittain ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Bryan Elsley
ⓘ
Charles Pattinson ⓘ George Faber ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
family relationships
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ mental health ⓘ sexuality ⓘ substance abuse ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Bristol ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2013-08-05 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2007-01-25 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
coming-of-age television series ⓘ teen drama ⓘ |
| hasCastRotationBy | generation ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeLength | approximately 46 minutes ⓘ |
| hasSeriesStructure | each episode focuses on a different character ⓘ |
| hasSpecialSeason |
Skins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Skins Fire
Skins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Skins Pure
Skins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Skins Redux
Skins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Skins Rise
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| knownFor |
controversial storylines
ⓘ
raw portrayal of teenage life ⓘ rotating ensemble cast ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Daniel Kaluuya
ⓘ
Dev Patel ⓘ Hannah Murray ⓘ Jack O’Connell ⓘ
surface form:
Jack O'Connell
Joe Dempsie ⓘ Kaya Scodelario ⓘ Nicholas Hoult ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 61 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 7 ⓘ |
| originalChannelType | cable television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | E4 ⓘ |
| portrays | adolescence ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Company Pictures ⓘ |
| received |
British Academy Television Awards
ⓘ
surface form:
BAFTA TV Award nominations
|
| setIn | Bristol ⓘ |
| spinOffOrRelatedWork |
Skins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Skins (American TV series)
|
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
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: Skins Description of subject: Skins is a British teen drama television series known for its raw, controversial portrayal of adolescence and its rotating ensemble cast.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skins (American TV series)
this entity surface form:
Skins Redux
this entity surface form:
Skins Fire
this entity surface form:
Skins Pure
this entity surface form:
Skins Rise
this entity surface form:
Skins series 1 episode 1
this entity surface form:
Skins series 1
this entity surface form:
Skins series 2
subject surface form:
Adam Smith (director)
subject surface form:
Adam Smith (director)
this entity surface form:
Skins (TV series)
subject surface form:
Adam Smith (director)
this entity surface form:
Skins (series 1 episodes)
subject surface form:
Adam Smith (director)
this entity surface form:
Skins (series 2 episodes)
subject surface form:
Adam Smith (director)
this entity surface form:
Skins (E4 television series)