Jodeci
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Jodeci is an influential American R&B group known for pioneering the gritty, hip-hop–infused soul sound of the 1990s and inspiring many later artists in the genre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jodeci canonical | 17 |
| K-Ci & JoJo | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1233394 — 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: Jodeci Context triple: [Uptown Records, helpedLaunchCareerOf, Jodeci]
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A.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an American hip hop group from Cleveland, Ohio, known for their fast-paced, melodic rapping style and harmonized vocals.
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B.
Blackstreet
Blackstreet is an American R&B group best known for their 1996 hit single "No Diggity" and their influential role in 1990s new jack swing.
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C.
Westside Connection
Westside Connection was a 1990s West Coast hip hop supergroup featuring Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC, known for their aggressive gangsta rap style and strong regional pride.
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D.
Tiwa Savage
Tiwa Savage is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and performer widely regarded as one of the leading female stars of contemporary Afrobeats music.
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E.
Outkast
Outkast is an influential American hip hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia, known for their innovative fusion of rap, funk, and soul and acclaimed albums like "Aquemini" and "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below."
- 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: Jodeci Target entity description: Jodeci is an influential American R&B group known for pioneering the gritty, hip-hop–infused soul sound of the 1990s and inspiring many later artists in the genre.
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A.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an American hip hop group from Cleveland, Ohio, known for their fast-paced, melodic rapping style and harmonized vocals.
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B.
Blackstreet
Blackstreet is an American R&B group best known for their 1996 hit single "No Diggity" and their influential role in 1990s new jack swing.
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C.
Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe is an American R&B/hip-hop group formed by New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, best known for their influential 1990 hit "Poison" and their role in pioneering the new jack swing sound.
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D.
Westside Connection
Westside Connection was a 1990s West Coast hip hop supergroup featuring Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC, known for their aggressive gangsta rap style and strong regional pride.
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E.
Ruff Ryders
Ruff Ryders is a prominent hip-hop collective and record label known for artists like DMX, Eve, and producer Swizz Beatz, influential in late 1990s and early 2000s rap.
- 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: Jodeci Description of subject: Jodeci is an influential American R&B group known for pioneering the gritty, hip-hop–infused soul sound of the 1990s and inspiring many later artists in the genre.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
K-Ci & JoJo
this entity surface form:
K-Ci & JoJo
this entity surface form:
K-Ci & JoJo
subject surface form:
New jack swing