Skunkworks
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Skunkworks is a 1996 alternative rock/metal solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson that marked a stylistic departure from his traditional heavy metal sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Skunkworks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11528266 — 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: Skunkworks Context triple: [Bruce Dickinson, hasSoloAlbum, Skunkworks]
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A.
Lockheed Skunk Works
Lockheed Skunk Works is the famed advanced development division of Lockheed Martin known for creating cutting-edge, often secretive military aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-117 Nighthawk.
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B.
Hangar Three
Hangar Three is a historic aircraft hangar located at Moffett Field in California, known for its role in U.S. military and aviation history.
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C.
Hangar One
Hangar One is a historic, massive airship hangar and landmark of early U.S. naval aviation located at Moffett Field in California’s Silicon Valley.
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D.
Galt Rockets
The Galt Rockets were a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Galt, Ontario, that competed in the Ontario Hockey Association in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thunderbird project
The Thunderbird project is the community-driven organization responsible for developing and maintaining the Thunderbird open-source email client.
- 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: Skunkworks Target entity description: Skunkworks is a 1996 alternative rock/metal solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson that marked a stylistic departure from his traditional heavy metal sound.
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A.
Lockheed Skunk Works
Lockheed Skunk Works is the famed advanced development division of Lockheed Martin known for creating cutting-edge, often secretive military aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-117 Nighthawk.
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B.
Hangar Three
Hangar Three is a historic aircraft hangar located at Moffett Field in California, known for its role in U.S. military and aviation history.
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C.
Hangar One
Hangar One is a historic, massive airship hangar and landmark of early U.S. naval aviation located at Moffett Field in California’s Silicon Valley.
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D.
Galt Rockets
The Galt Rockets were a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Galt, Ontario, that competed in the Ontario Hockey Association in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thunderbird project
The Thunderbird project is the community-driven organization responsible for developing and maintaining the Thunderbird open-source email client.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alternative rock album
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metal album ⓘ rock album ⓘ solo album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Bruce Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNextTitle | Accident of Birth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNextYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousTitle | Balls to Picasso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Alessandro Elena
NERFINISHED
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Alex Dickson NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Dale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
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alternative rock ⓘ grunge-influenced rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtFeaturing | Bruce Dickinson logo variant ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Back from the Edge
NERFINISHED
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Dreamstate NERFINISHED ⓘ Faith NERFINISHED ⓘ Headswitch NERFINISHED ⓘ I Will Not Accept the Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ Inertia NERFINISHED ⓘ Innerspace NERFINISHED ⓘ Inside the Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Meltdown NERFINISHED ⓘ Octavia NERFINISHED ⓘ Solar Confinement NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Race NERFINISHED ⓘ Strange Death in Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marksStylisticDepartureFrom |
Iron Maiden-style heavy metal
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traditional heavy metal sound ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration with producer Jack Endino
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departure from Bruce Dickinson's traditional heavy metal style ⓘ |
| partOf | Bruce Dickinson discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Bruce Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruce Dickinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Endino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
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Rockfield Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedWithBandName | Skunkworks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Castle Communications
NERFINISHED
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Raw Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseType | full-length album ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Bruce Dickinson 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: Skunkworks Description of subject: Skunkworks is a 1996 alternative rock/metal solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson that marked a stylistic departure from his traditional heavy metal sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.