Tom Skilling
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Tom Skilling is a prominent American meteorologist best known for his long tenure as chief meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Skilling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5731581 — 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: Tom Skilling Context triple: [Jeffrey Skilling, sibling, Tom Skilling]
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A.
Tom Ropelewski
Tom Ropelewski is an American screenwriter and film director known for working on mainstream Hollywood comedies and family films.
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B.
Greg Siple
Greg Siple is an American cyclist, illustrator, and co-founder of the Adventure Cycling Association, known for helping launch long-distance bicycle touring in the United States.
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C.
Phil Jones
Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
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D.
William Gray
William Gray was a prominent early American merchant and political figure from Massachusetts whose influence and legacy are reflected in regional landmarks bearing his name.
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E.
Richard Hathaway
Richard Hathaway was an English yeoman farmer best known as the father of Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare.
- 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: Tom Skilling Target entity description: Tom Skilling is a prominent American meteorologist best known for his long tenure as chief meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago.
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A.
Tom Ropelewski
Tom Ropelewski is an American screenwriter and film director known for working on mainstream Hollywood comedies and family films.
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B.
Greg Siple
Greg Siple is an American cyclist, illustrator, and co-founder of the Adventure Cycling Association, known for helping launch long-distance bicycle touring in the United States.
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C.
Phil Jones
Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
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D.
William Gray
William Gray was a prominent early American merchant and political figure from Massachusetts whose influence and legacy are reflected in regional landmarks bearing his name.
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E.
Richard Hathaway
Richard Hathaway was an English yeoman farmer best known as the father of Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television personality
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human ⓘ meteorologist ⓘ public figure ⓘ television meteorologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Emmy Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
USA
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
Tribune Broadcasting
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WGN Radio ⓘ WGN-TV ⓘ WGN-TV Evening News ⓘ
linked to:
WGN-TV
WGN-TV Nine O’Clock News ⓘ
linked to:
WGN-TV
|
| familyName | Skilling ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
meteorology
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weather forecasting ⓘ |
| genre |
television news
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weather reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | broadcast meteorologist ⓘ |
| hasPart | special weather documentaries for WGN-TV ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Skilling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Chicago-area weather expertise
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coverage of severe weather in the Chicago area ⓘ detailed and educational weather explanations ⓘ long tenure as chief meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago ⓘ longest-serving TV meteorologists in Chicago market ⓘ public outreach on climate and weather ⓘ use of graphics and technology in weathercasts ⓘ |
| notableWork |
weather forecasts on WGN-TV
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weather segments on WGN Radio ⓘ |
| occupation |
meteorologist
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television presenter ⓘ |
| participantIn | public weather education events in Chicago ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Aurora, Illinois ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief meteorologist ⓘ |
| relative | Jeffrey Skilling ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago ⓘ |
| sibling | Jeffrey Skilling ⓘ |
| studied | meteorology ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago
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WGN-TV studios ⓘ
linked to:
WGN-TV
|
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: Tom Skilling Description of subject: Tom Skilling is a prominent American meteorologist best known for his long tenure as chief meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.