Skinny Puppy
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Skinny Puppy is a pioneering Canadian industrial band known for its dark, experimental sound and influential role in shaping the electro-industrial genre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skinny Puppy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6480347 — 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: Skinny Puppy Context triple: [Nine Inch Nails, influencedBy, Skinny Puppy]
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A.
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front is a pioneering New York hardcore punk band known for its influential role in shaping the 1980s hardcore and crossover thrash scenes.
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B.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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C.
The Skints
The Skints are a London-based band known for blending reggae, ska, punk, and dub influences into a politically conscious, genre-crossing sound.
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D.
Sum 41
Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band known for its energetic blend of pop punk, punk rock, and alternative metal, with hits like “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep.”
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E.
Rancid
Rancid is an American punk rock band known for reviving and popularizing ska-influenced street punk in the 1990s.
- 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: Skinny Puppy Target entity description: Skinny Puppy is a pioneering Canadian industrial band known for its dark, experimental sound and influential role in shaping the electro-industrial genre.
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A.
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front is a pioneering New York hardcore punk band known for its influential role in shaping the 1980s hardcore and crossover thrash scenes.
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B.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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C.
The Skints
The Skints are a London-based band known for blending reggae, ska, punk, and dub influences into a politically conscious, genre-crossing sound.
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D.
Sum 41
Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band known for its energetic blend of pop punk, punk rock, and alternative metal, with hits like “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep.”
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E.
Rancid
Rancid is an American punk rock band known for reviving and popularizing ska-influenced street punk in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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industrial music group ⓘ |
| activeStart | early 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Doubting Thomas
NERFINISHED
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Download NERFINISHED ⓘ Front Line Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ ohGr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1982 ⓘ |
| genre |
electro-industrial
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electronic music ⓘ industrial ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Nivek Ogre
NERFINISHED
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cEvin Key NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPastMember |
Bill Leeb
NERFINISHED
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Dave Ogilvie NERFINISHED ⓘ Dwayne Goettel NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Walk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Front Line Assembly
NERFINISHED
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KMFDM NERFINISHED ⓘ Ministry NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
electro-industrial
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industrial rock ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dark sound
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experimental production ⓘ theatrical live performances ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
animal rights
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anti-war ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bites
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate NERFINISHED ⓘ HanDover NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Rights NERFINISHED ⓘ Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse NERFINISHED ⓘ Mythmaker NERFINISHED ⓘ Rabies NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greater Wrong of the Right NERFINISHED ⓘ The Process NERFINISHED ⓘ Too Dark Park NERFINISHED ⓘ VIVIsectVI NERFINISHED ⓘ Weapon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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Nettwerk NERFINISHED ⓘ Subconscious Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Skinny Puppy Description of subject: Skinny Puppy is a pioneering Canadian industrial band known for its dark, experimental sound and influential role in shaping the electro-industrial genre.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.