Skylar Tibbits
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Skylar Tibbits is an architect, designer, and computer scientist known for pioneering 4D printing and programmable materials through his leadership of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skylar Tibbits canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7617572 — 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: Skylar Tibbits Context triple: [MIT Self-Assembly Lab, foundedBy, Skylar Tibbits]
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A.
Danielle Feinberg
Danielle Feinberg is an American cinematographer and visual effects artist best known for her lighting and camera work on numerous Pixar animated films.
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B.
Amanda Askell
Amanda Askell is an AI researcher and ethicist known for her work on AI alignment and safety, including contributions at OpenAI.
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C.
Ashley Totten
Ashley Totten was a pioneering African American labor organizer and civil rights activist best known for helping to establish the first major Black labor union in the United States.
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D.
Sage Kotsenburg
Sage Kotsenburg is an American snowboarder best known for winning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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E.
Andrea Stinson
Andrea Stinson is a former American professional basketball guard best known as a three-time WNBA All-Star and one of the early standout players for the Charlotte Sting.
- 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: Skylar Tibbits Target entity description: Skylar Tibbits is an architect, designer, and computer scientist known for pioneering 4D printing and programmable materials through his leadership of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
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A.
Danielle Feinberg
Danielle Feinberg is an American cinematographer and visual effects artist best known for her lighting and camera work on numerous Pixar animated films.
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B.
Amanda Askell
Amanda Askell is an AI researcher and ethicist known for her work on AI alignment and safety, including contributions at OpenAI.
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C.
Ashley Totten
Ashley Totten was a pioneering African American labor organizer and civil rights activist best known for helping to establish the first major Black labor union in the United States.
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D.
Sage Kotsenburg
Sage Kotsenburg is an American snowboarder best known for winning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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E.
Andrea Stinson
Andrea Stinson is a former American professional basketball guard best known as a three-time WNBA All-Star and one of the early standout players for the Charlotte Sting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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person ⓘ |
| affiliation |
MIT Department of Architecture
NERFINISHED
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MIT Self-Assembly Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| educatedAt |
Architectural Association School of Architecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
ⓘ
computer science ⓘ design ⓘ digital fabrication ⓘ material science ⓘ self-assembly systems ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
additive manufacturing
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construction technologies ⓘ product design ⓘ responsive materials ⓘ robotic fabrication ⓘ |
| hasRole |
educator
ⓘ
lab director ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| knownFor |
4D printing
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MIT Self-Assembly Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ programmable materials ⓘ self-assembly ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Self-Assembly Lab projects
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
research on 4D printing ⓘ research on programmable materials ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ designer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT
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faculty member at MIT ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Skylar Tibbits Description of subject: Skylar Tibbits is an architect, designer, and computer scientist known for pioneering 4D printing and programmable materials through his leadership of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.