Skank
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Skank is a popular Brazilian rock/reggae band known for its melodic hits and significant influence on Brazil’s 1990s and 2000s music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skank canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13615492 — 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: Skank Context triple: [MTV Video Music Brazil, notablePerformer, Skank]
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A.
Skank
Skank is a character in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s gritty stage play "In Arabia We’d All Be Kings," which explores the lives of marginalized New Yorkers in a rapidly gentrifying Hell’s Kitchen.
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B.
The Rockafeller Skank
"The Rockafeller Skank" is a 1998 big beat dance track by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, famous for its catchy "Right about now" vocal hook and heavy use of samples.
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C.
Honky
Honky is a central comedic character from the British television play "Nuts in May," known for his awkward, disruptive presence that contrasts sharply with the protagonists’ earnest idealism.
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D.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
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E.
Sad Sack
Sad Sack is a comic strip character, originally a World War II-era U.S. Army private, known for his misadventures and downtrodden, luckless demeanor.
- 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: Skank Target entity description: Skank is a popular Brazilian rock/reggae band known for its melodic hits and significant influence on Brazil’s 1990s and 2000s music scene.
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A.
Skank
Skank is a character in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s gritty stage play "In Arabia We’d All Be Kings," which explores the lives of marginalized New Yorkers in a rapidly gentrifying Hell’s Kitchen.
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B.
The Rockafeller Skank
"The Rockafeller Skank" is a 1998 big beat dance track by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, famous for its catchy "Right about now" vocal hook and heavy use of samples.
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C.
Honky
Honky is a central comedic character from the British television play "Nuts in May," known for his awkward, disruptive presence that contrasts sharply with the protagonists’ earnest idealism.
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D.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
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E.
Sad Sack
Sad Sack is a comic strip character, originally a World War II-era U.S. Army private, known for his misadventures and downtrodden, luckless demeanor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.