Crystal Ball
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"Crystal Ball" is a 1976 rock album by the American band Styx, marking a transition toward the more polished, arena-rock sound that would define their later success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crystal Ball canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696911 — 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 Ball Context triple: [Styx, notableAlbum, Crystal Ball]
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A.
Crystal Ball
"Crystal Ball" is a song by the English rock band Keane, known for its emotive lyrics and piano-driven alternative rock sound.
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B.
The Crystal Ball
The Crystal Ball is a 1902 Pre-Raphaelite-style painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a mysterious woman gazing into a crystal sphere, often interpreted as exploring themes of magic and fate.
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C.
The Time
The Time is a funk and R&B band from Minneapolis best known for its close association with Prince and its prominent role in the early 1980s Minneapolis sound.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
The Shattered Crystal Ball
The Shattered Crystal Ball is a work by historian James G. Blight that examines U.S. foreign policy and the limits of strategic prediction during the Cold War.
- 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 Ball Target entity description: "Crystal Ball" is a 1976 rock album by the American band Styx, marking a transition toward the more polished, arena-rock sound that would define their later success.
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A.
Crystal Ball
"Crystal Ball" is a song by the English rock band Keane, known for its emotive lyrics and piano-driven alternative rock sound.
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B.
The Crystal Ball
The Crystal Ball is a 1902 Pre-Raphaelite-style painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a mysterious woman gazing into a crystal sphere, often interpreted as exploring themes of magic and fate.
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C.
The Time
The Time is a funk and R&B band from Minneapolis best known for its close association with Prince and its prominent role in the early 1980s Minneapolis sound.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
The Shattered Crystal Ball
The Shattered Crystal Ball is a work by historian James G. Blight that examines U.S. foreign policy and the limits of strategic prediction during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rock album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Styx ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresMusician |
Chuck Panozzo
ⓘ
Dennis DeYoung ⓘ James Young ⓘ John Panozzo ⓘ Tommy Shaw ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Grand Illusion
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Illusion
|
| genre |
arena rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Claire De Lune / Ballerina
ⓘ
Crystal Ball (song) ⓘ
linked to:
Crystal Ball
Jennifer ⓘ Mademoiselle ⓘ Put Me On ⓘ Shooz ⓘ This Old Man ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSongwriter |
Dennis DeYoung
ⓘ
James Young ⓘ Tommy Shaw ⓘ |
| medium |
audio CD
ⓘ
vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableFor | marking Styx's transition toward a more polished arena-rock sound ⓘ |
| partOf | Styx discography ⓘ |
| performer | Styx ⓘ |
| precededBy | Equinox ⓘ |
| producer |
Barry Mraz
ⓘ
Styx ⓘ |
| recordedIn | United States recording studios ⓘ |
| recordLabel | A&M Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-10-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
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 Ball Description of subject: "Crystal Ball" is a 1976 rock album by the American band Styx, marking a transition toward the more polished, arena-rock sound that would define their later success.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.