Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
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"Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" is a critically acclaimed 1994 indie rock album by Pavement, noted for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and influence on alternative rock.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494989 — 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: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Context triple: [Pavement, album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain]
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Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
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In the Rain
"In the Rain" is a song best known as a soulful 1971 hit by the American R&B group The Dramatics, featuring lush production and emotive vocals.
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It Will Rain
"It Will Rain" is a pop-R&B ballad by Bruno Mars, best known for its emotional lyrics about heartbreak and its inclusion on the soundtrack of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1."
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D.
Can You Stand the Rain
"Can You Stand the Rain" is a 1988 R&B ballad by New Edition, known for its lush harmonies and themes of enduring love through difficult times.
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E.
Tears and Rain
"Tears and Rain" is a song by James Blunt from his debut album *Back to Bedlam*, known for its melancholic lyrics and soft rock style.
- 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: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Target entity description: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" is a critically acclaimed 1994 indie rock album by Pavement, noted for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and influence on alternative rock.
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A.
Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
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B.
In the Rain
"In the Rain" is a song best known as a soulful 1971 hit by the American R&B group The Dramatics, featuring lush production and emotive vocals.
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C.
It Will Rain
"It Will Rain" is a pop-R&B ballad by Bruno Mars, best known for its emotional lyrics about heartbreak and its inclusion on the soundtrack of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1."
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D.
Can You Stand the Rain
"Can You Stand the Rain" is a 1988 R&B ballad by New Edition, known for its lush harmonies and themes of enduring love through difficult times.
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E.
Tears and Rain
"Tears and Rain" is a song by James Blunt from his debut album *Back to Bedlam*, known for its melancholic lyrics and soft rock style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Description of subject: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" is a critically acclaimed 1994 indie rock album by Pavement, noted for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and influence on alternative rock.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (album by Pavement)
subject surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
this entity surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins
this entity surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain recording sessions