Rockit
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"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rockit canonical | 5 |
| "Rockit" | 3 |
| "Rockit" (as turntablist) | 1 |
| Rockit (single) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070995 — 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: Rockit Context triple: [Herbie Hancock, notableWork, Rockit]
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A.
Rockanje
Rockanje is a coastal village in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and dunes, located on the island of Voorne-Putten in the province of South Holland.
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B.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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C.
Boom Boom Pow
"Boom Boom Pow" is a 2009 electro-pop and hip-hop single by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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D.
My Humps
"My Humps" is a 2005 dance-pop and hip-hop single by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its catchy, repetitive hook and playful, sexually suggestive lyrics.
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E.
Pump It
"Pump It" is a high-energy hip hop and dance track by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its heavy use of a sample from Dick Dale's surf rock classic "Misirlou."
- 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: Rockit Target entity description: "Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
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A.
Rockanje
Rockanje is a coastal village in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and dunes, located on the island of Voorne-Putten in the province of South Holland.
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B.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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C.
Boom Boom Pow
"Boom Boom Pow" is a 2009 electro-pop and hip-hop single by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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D.
My Humps
"My Humps" is a 2005 dance-pop and hip-hop single by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its catchy, repetitive hook and playful, sexually suggestive lyrics.
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E.
Pump It
"Pump It" is a high-energy hip hop and dance track by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its heavy use of a sample from Dick Dale's surf rock classic "Misirlou."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Future Shock ⓘ |
| artist | Herbie Hancock ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
UK Singles Chart number 8
ⓘ
US Dance Club Songs number 1 ⓘ US R&B chart top 20 ⓘ |
| chronologyPosition | lead single from the album Future Shock ⓘ |
| composer |
Bill Laswell
ⓘ
Herbie Hancock ⓘ Michael Beinhorn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresPerformer |
D.ST
ⓘ
GrandMixer D.ST ⓘ |
| genre |
electro
ⓘ
funk ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ jazz-funk ⓘ |
| hasBPM | ≈114 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
scratching
ⓘ
turntablism ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
development of turntablism
ⓘ
integration of hip hop techniques into jazz and pop ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Rockit music video ⓘ |
| isInstrumental | true ⓘ |
| key | F minor ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Godley & Creme ⓘ |
| musicVideoNotableFor |
heavy rotation on MTV
ⓘ
popularizing DJ scratching in mainstream culture ⓘ use of robotic and disjointed mannequins ⓘ |
| musicVideoStyle | surreal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fusion of jazz, funk, and electro elements
ⓘ
groundbreaking use of DJ scratching in a mainstream single ⓘ innovative music video on MTV ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Future Shock ⓘ |
| performer | Herbie Hancock ⓘ |
| producer |
Bill Laswell
ⓘ
Material ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CBS Records
ⓘ
Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-08-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
drum machine
ⓘ
electric bass ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ turntables ⓘ |
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: Rockit Description of subject: "Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
linked to: Rockit
linked to: Rockit
linked to: Rockit
linked to: Rockit
linked to: Rockit