Skinner
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Skinner is a fictional member of the J-Squad military unit in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skinner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5751334 — 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: Skinner Context triple: [J-Squad, member, Skinner]
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A.
B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
B. F. Skinner was an influential American psychologist and behaviorist best known for developing the theory of operant conditioning and pioneering experimental analysis of behavior.
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B.
Skinner box
The Skinner box is an experimental apparatus used in behavioral psychology to study and control animal learning through systematically administered rewards and punishments.
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C.
Charlie Skinner
Charlie Skinner is the hard-drinking, idealistic news director who serves as a moral compass and mentor figure in the television series "The Newsroom."
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D.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
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E.
Murray Sidman
Murray Sidman was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his pioneering work in experimental analysis of behavior and the development of the Sidman avoidance procedure.
- 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: Skinner Target entity description: Skinner is a fictional member of the J-Squad military unit in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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A.
B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
B. F. Skinner was an influential American psychologist and behaviorist best known for developing the theory of operant conditioning and pioneering experimental analysis of behavior.
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B.
Skinner box
The Skinner box is an experimental apparatus used in behavioral psychology to study and control animal learning through systematically administered rewards and punishments.
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C.
Charlie Skinner
Charlie Skinner is the hard-drinking, idealistic news director who serves as a moral compass and mentor figure in the television series "The Newsroom."
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D.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
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E.
Murray Sidman
Murray Sidman was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his pioneering work in experimental analysis of behavior and the development of the Sidman avoidance procedure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Edge of Tomorrow ⓘ |
| basedOn | All You Need Is Kill ⓘ |
| conflict | war against the Mimics ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
Japan
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Edge of Tomorrow universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Edge of Tomorrow
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAllegiance | United Defense Force ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| memberOf | J-Squad ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United Defense Force ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| workComposer | Christophe Beck ⓘ |
| workDirector | Doug Liman ⓘ |
| workDistributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| workGenre |
action film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| workProductionCompany |
3 Arts Entertainment
ⓘ
RatPac-Dune Entertainment ⓘ
linked to:
RatPac Entertainment
Village Roadshow Pictures ⓘ Viz Productions ⓘ Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| workScreenwriter |
Christopher McQuarrie
ⓘ
Jez Butterworth ⓘ John-Henry Butterworth ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2014 ⓘ |
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: Skinner Description of subject: Skinner is a fictional member of the J-Squad military unit in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
J-Squad (training and combat association)