Dennis Skinner
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Dennis Skinner is a British Labour politician and long-serving Member of Parliament known for his left-wing views and sharp, often humorous interventions in the House of Commons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Skinner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5047856 — 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: Dennis Skinner Context triple: [Hendon County Grammar School, notableAlumnus, Dennis Skinner]
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A.
Edward Almond
Edward Almond was a U.S. Army lieutenant general best known for leading X Corps during the Korean War, including its role in the Inchon Landing and subsequent operations.
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B.
Crispin Blunt
Crispin Blunt is a British Conservative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Reigate since 1997 and has held various roles related to foreign affairs and justice.
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C.
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician known for his cabinet roles in the 1990s and his popular railway travel television series.
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D.
Damian Green
Damian Green is a British Conservative politician who has served as a Member of Parliament and held several senior government roles, including positions in Theresa May's Cabinet.
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E.
Kevin Bartlett
Kevin Bartlett is a legendary Australian rules footballer and coach best known for his prolific goal-kicking and long career with the Richmond Football Club in the VFL/AFL.
- 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: Dennis Skinner Target entity description: Dennis Skinner is a British Labour politician and long-serving Member of Parliament known for his left-wing views and sharp, often humorous interventions in the House of Commons.
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A.
Edward Almond
Edward Almond was a U.S. Army lieutenant general best known for leading X Corps during the Korean War, including its role in the Inchon Landing and subsequent operations.
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B.
Crispin Blunt
Crispin Blunt is a British Conservative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Reigate since 1997 and has held various roles related to foreign affairs and justice.
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C.
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician known for his cabinet roles in the 1990s and his popular railway travel television series.
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D.
Damian Green
Damian Green is a British Conservative politician who has served as a Member of Parliament and held several senior government roles, including positions in Theresa May's Cabinet.
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E.
Kevin Bartlett
Kevin Bartlett is a legendary Australian rules footballer and coach best known for his prolific goal-kicking and long career with the Richmond Football Club in the VFL/AFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
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Labour Party politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Freedom of the Borough of Bolsover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constituencyRepresented | Bolsover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-02-11 ⓘ |
| electedIn |
1970 United Kingdom general election
NERFINISHED
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1979 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 1983 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 1987 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 1992 United Kingdom general election ⓘ 1997 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 2001 United Kingdom general election ⓘ 2005 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 2010 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 2015 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 United Kingdom general election ⓘ February 1974 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ October 1974 United Kingdom general election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2019-11-06 ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | political autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | Member of Parliament ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Edward Skinner
NERFINISHED
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Harold Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mary Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
democratic socialism
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left-wing politics ⓘ |
| knownFor | left-wing political views ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Labour Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Union of Mineworkers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Dennis Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Beast of Bolsover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | humorous interventions in the House of Commons ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sailing Close to the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
trade unionist ⓘ |
| parliament | Parliament of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Labour Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of Parliament for Bolsover
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Member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party ⓘ |
| previousOccupation | coal miner ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence | Bolsover, Derbyshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1970-06-18 ⓘ |
| workLocation | House of Commons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dennis Skinner Description of subject: Dennis Skinner is a British Labour politician and long-serving Member of Parliament known for his left-wing views and sharp, often humorous interventions in the House of Commons.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.