Rickie Lake
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Ricki Lake is an American actress and television host best known for her role in the film "Hairspray" and for hosting the long-running daytime talk show "Ricki Lake."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricki Lake | 4 |
| Rickie Lake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789661 — 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: Rickie Lake Context triple: [Where the Day Takes You, starredActor, Rickie Lake]
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A.
Ricki Tarr
Ricki Tarr is a British intelligence operative and key informant in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose actions help uncover a high-level Soviet mole.
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B.
Lakiha Spicer
Lakiha Spicer is an American woman best known as the third wife of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.
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C.
Katherine LaNasa
Katherine LaNasa is an American actress, former ballet dancer, and choreographer known for her work in film and television, including roles in series like "Three Sisters" and "Deception."
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D.
Stacee Brown
Stacee Brown is the daughter of American singer Rebbie Jackson and a member of the extended Jackson family.
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E.
Renee Ribble
Renee Ribble is a musician best known as a member of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
- 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: Rickie Lake Target entity description: Ricki Lake is an American actress and television host best known for her role in the film "Hairspray" and for hosting the long-running daytime talk show "Ricki Lake."
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A.
Ricki Tarr
Ricki Tarr is a British intelligence operative and key informant in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose actions help uncover a high-level Soviet mole.
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B.
Lakiha Spicer
Lakiha Spicer is an American woman best known as the third wife of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.
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C.
Katherine LaNasa
Katherine LaNasa is an American actress, former ballet dancer, and choreographer known for her work in film and television, including roles in series like "Three Sisters" and "Deception."
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D.
Stacee Brown
Stacee Brown is the daughter of American singer Rebbie Jackson and a member of the extended Jackson family.
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E.
Renee Ribble
Renee Ribble is a musician best known as a member of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Ricki Pamela Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-09-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Professional Children's School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Lake ⓘ |
| genre | talk show ⓘ |
| givenName | Ricki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0001438 ⓘ |
| hasTalkShow |
Ricki Lake (1993–2004)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Ricki Lake Show (2012–2013) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hosting the daytime talk show "Ricki Lake"
ⓘ
starring as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" (1988) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Ricki Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
China Beach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cry-Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Hairspray (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Winterbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricki Lake (talk show) NERFINISHED ⓘ Serial Mom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Business of Being Born NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
producer ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 13) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Tracy Turnblad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| spouse |
Christian Evans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Sussman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Business of Being Born NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twitterHandle | @RickiLake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Divine
NERFINISHED
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John Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Depp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1987–present ⓘ |
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: Rickie Lake Description of subject: Ricki Lake is an American actress and television host best known for her role in the film "Hairspray" and for hosting the long-running daytime talk show "Ricki Lake."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ricki Lake
this entity surface form:
Ricki Lake
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Ricki Lake
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Ricki Lake