Theme from Gidget
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"Theme from Gidget" is the catchy pop title song to the 1959 teen surf-romance film "Gidget," helping define the lighthearted beach-movie sound of its era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theme from Gidget canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12908205 — 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: Theme from Gidget Context triple: [Jack Keller, notableWork, Theme from Gidget]
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A.
That Girl theme
The "That Girl" theme is the lively, jazzy opening music composed by Earle Hagen for the 1960s American sitcom "That Girl," starring Marlo Thomas.
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B.
Theme from Growing Pains
"Theme from Growing Pains" is the memorable opening song from the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains," co-written by lyricist John Bettis.
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C.
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised)
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) is a reworked version of the famous show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, known for its memorable melody and frequent jazz interpretations.
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D.
Theme from Rocky
"Theme from Rocky" is the iconic, brass-driven training montage song from the 1976 film *Rocky*, widely recognized as an anthem of determination and triumph.
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E.
Theme from Shaft
"Theme from Shaft" is a 1971 funk and soul song by Isaac Hayes, best known as the Oscar-winning, wah-wah guitar–driven theme for the blaxploitation film "Shaft."
- 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: Theme from Gidget Target entity description: "Theme from Gidget" is the catchy pop title song to the 1959 teen surf-romance film "Gidget," helping define the lighthearted beach-movie sound of its era.
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A.
That Girl theme
The "That Girl" theme is the lively, jazzy opening music composed by Earle Hagen for the 1960s American sitcom "That Girl," starring Marlo Thomas.
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B.
Theme from Growing Pains
"Theme from Growing Pains" is the memorable opening song from the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains," co-written by lyricist John Bettis.
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C.
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised)
Theme from "My Favorite Things" (revised) is a reworked version of the famous show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, known for its memorable melody and frequent jazz interpretations.
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D.
Theme from Rocky
"Theme from Rocky" is the iconic, brass-driven training montage song from the 1976 film *Rocky*, widely recognized as an anthem of determination and triumph.
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E.
Theme from Shaft
"Theme from Shaft" is a 1971 funk and soul song by Isaac Hayes, best known as the Oscar-winning, wah-wah guitar–driven theme for the blaxploitation film "Shaft."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film theme song
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
beach party films
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surf culture ⓘ teen romance films ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Gidget (1957 novel)
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linked to:
Gidget (novels)
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describedAs | catchy pop title song to the 1959 teen surf-romance film Gidget ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | teen surf-romance film ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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pop ⓘ soundtrack ⓘ teen pop ⓘ |
| hasPart |
lyrics
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music ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
beach-movie sound
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lighthearted ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio recording ⓘ |
| notableFor | helping define the lighthearted beach-movie sound of its era ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gidget (1959 film)
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linked to:
Gidget
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| publicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| title | Theme from Gidget ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gidget (1959 film)
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linked to:
Gidget
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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: Theme from Gidget Description of subject: "Theme from Gidget" is the catchy pop title song to the 1959 teen surf-romance film "Gidget," helping define the lighthearted beach-movie sound of its era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.