Chef Skinner
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Chef Skinner is the short-tempered, power-hungry head chef of Gusteau’s restaurant in Pixar’s film "Ratatouille," obsessed with exploiting the late chef’s name for profit and determined to thwart Remy and Linguini.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chef Skinner canonical | 2 |
| Chef Louis | 1 |
| Skinner (after Gusteau’s death, in-story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2139884 — 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: Chef Skinner Context triple: [Ratatouille, antagonist, Chef Skinner]
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A.
Roy Raymond
Roy Raymond was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret in the 1970s.
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B.
Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup championship and later coaching several NHL teams, including the Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames.
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C.
Anton Ego
Anton Ego is the intimidating, sharp-tongued food critic from Pixar’s "Ratatouille" whose harsh reviews can make or break a restaurant.
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D.
Cook
Cook is a surname shared by various notable individuals, including members of singer-songwriter Alicia Keys' family.
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E.
Jack Kitchin
Jack Kitchin was a film editor known for his work on early Hollywood productions, including classic musicals of the 1930s.
- 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: Chef Skinner Target entity description: Chef Skinner is the short-tempered, power-hungry head chef of Gusteau’s restaurant in Pixar’s film "Ratatouille," obsessed with exploiting the late chef’s name for profit and determined to thwart Remy and Linguini.
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A.
Roy Raymond
Roy Raymond was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret in the 1970s.
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B.
Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup championship and later coaching several NHL teams, including the Atlanta Thrashers and Calgary Flames.
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C.
Anton Ego
Anton Ego is the intimidating, sharp-tongued food critic from Pixar’s "Ratatouille" whose harsh reviews can make or break a restaurant.
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D.
Cook
Cook is a surname shared by various notable individuals, including members of singer-songwriter Alicia Keys' family.
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E.
Jack Kitchin
Jack Kitchin was a film editor known for his work on early Hollywood productions, including classic musicals of the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film character
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antagonist ⓘ chef ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ratatouille
ⓘ
Ratatouille ⓘ
surface form:
Ratatouille (2007 film)
|
| appearsInGenre | animated comedy film ⓘ |
| attemptsTo |
expose Remy as a rat in the kitchen
ⓘ
hide Linguini’s true parentage ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Brad Bird
ⓘ
Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| develops | Gusteau’s frozen food line ⓘ |
| discovers |
Alfredo Linguini
ⓘ
surface form:
Linguini is Gusteau’s son
|
| distributorOfWork | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| employer | Gusteau’s restaurant ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Alfredo Linguini
ⓘ
Remy ⓘ |
| exploits | Chef Gusteau’s image ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner ⓘ |
| fullName | Auguste Skinner ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Auguste ⓘ |
| goal |
exploit Gusteau’s name for profit
ⓘ
maintain control of Gusteau’s restaurant ⓘ prevent Linguini from inheriting Gusteau’s ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| isDeposedBy | Alfredo Linguini ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| laterWorksAt | a frozen food factory ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtStart | acting owner of Gusteau’s restaurant ⓘ |
| losesControlOf | Gusteau’s restaurant ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation |
head chef
ⓘ
restaurateur ⓘ |
| opposes |
Linguini’s rise as a chef
ⓘ
Remy’s cooking at Gusteau’s ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
controlling
ⓘ
power-hungry ⓘ short-tempered ⓘ suspicious ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| roleInStory | main antagonist of Ratatouille ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| voicedBy | Ian Holm ⓘ |
| worksAt | Gusteau’s restaurant ⓘ |
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: Chef Skinner Description of subject: Chef Skinner is the short-tempered, power-hungry head chef of Gusteau’s restaurant in Pixar’s film "Ratatouille," obsessed with exploiting the late chef’s name for profit and determined to thwart Remy and Linguini.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chef Louis
this entity surface form:
Skinner (after Gusteau’s death, in-story)