Crystal Waters
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Crystal Waters is known as the spouse of Rodney King, the African American man whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 LA riots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crystal Waters canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8500183 — 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: Crystal Waters Context triple: [Rodney King, hasSpouse, Crystal Waters]
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A.
Jody Watley
Jody Watley is an American singer, songwriter, and former Shalamar member known for her influential role in 1980s and 1990s R&B, pop, and dance music.
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B.
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen is an American jazz and R&B pianist, singer, composer, and record producer best known for her 1982 hit song "Forget Me Nots."
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C.
Tamia
Tamia is a Canadian R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "So Into You" and "Stranger in My House."
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D.
Sheila E.
Sheila E. is an American percussionist, singer, and songwriter renowned for her virtuosic drumming, solo hits in the 1980s, and high-profile collaborations across pop, funk, and Latin music.
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E.
Ashanti
Ashanti is an American R&B singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hits like "Foolish" and her self-titled debut album.
- 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: Crystal Waters Target entity description: Crystal Waters is known as the spouse of Rodney King, the African American man whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 LA riots.
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A.
Jody Watley
Jody Watley is an American singer, songwriter, and former Shalamar member known for her influential role in 1980s and 1990s R&B, pop, and dance music.
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B.
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen is an American jazz and R&B pianist, singer, composer, and record producer best known for her 1982 hit song "Forget Me Nots."
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C.
Tamia
Tamia is a Canadian R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "So Into You" and "Stranger in My House."
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D.
Sheila E.
Sheila E. is an American percussionist, singer, and songwriter renowned for her virtuosic drumming, solo hits in the 1980s, and high-profile collaborations across pop, funk, and Latin music.
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E.
Ashanti
Ashanti is an American R&B singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hits like "Foolish" and her self-titled debut album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court decision
ⓘ
human ⓘ police brutality incident ⓘ riot ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| hasCause | acquittal of officers involved in Rodney King beating ⓘ |
| hasEffect | 1992 Los Angeles riots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers
ⓘ
being the spouse of Rodney King ⓘ |
| perpetrator | Los Angeles Police Department officers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pointInTime |
1991
ⓘ
1992 ⓘ |
| spouse | Rodney King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victim | Rodney King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOf | 1991 police beating in Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Crystal Waters Description of subject: Crystal Waters is known as the spouse of Rodney King, the African American man whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent acquittals sparked the 1992 LA riots.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.