Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
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"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a globally popular 2010 pop song by Shakira featuring Freshlyground that blends Afro-fusion rhythms with inspirational lyrics and became widely associated with football and international unity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) canonical | 14 |
| Waka Waka (Esto es África) | 3 |
| Waka Waka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1079354 — 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: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Context triple: [2010 FIFA World Cup, officialSong, Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)]
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A.
Can't Stop the Feeling!
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" is a 2016 upbeat pop song by Justin Timberlake, known for its feel-good dance vibe and association with the animated film Trolls.
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B.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
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C.
Ain’t Nobody
"Ain’t Nobody" is a 1983 R&B/funk song by Rufus and Chaka Khan, widely regarded as one of her signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 Hollywood musical film best known for featuring the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, helping launch their legendary dance partnership.
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E.
Bang Bang
"Bang Bang" is a politically charged punk rock song by Green Day from their album "Revolution Radio."
- 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: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Target entity description: "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a globally popular 2010 pop song by Shakira featuring Freshlyground that blends Afro-fusion rhythms with inspirational lyrics and became widely associated with football and international unity.
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A.
Can't Stop the Feeling!
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" is a 2016 upbeat pop song by Justin Timberlake, known for its feel-good dance vibe and association with the animated film Trolls.
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B.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
-
C.
Ain’t Nobody
"Ain’t Nobody" is a 1983 R&B/funk song by Rufus and Chaka Khan, widely regarded as one of her signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 Hollywood musical film best known for featuring the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, helping launch their legendary dance partnership.
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E.
Bang Bang
"Bang Bang" is a politically charged punk rock song by Green Day from their album "Revolution Radio."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Description of subject: "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a globally popular 2010 pop song by Shakira featuring Freshlyground that blends Afro-fusion rhythms with inspirational lyrics and became widely associated with football and international unity.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
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linked to: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
subject linked to:
Golden Sounds
subject linked to:
Shakira and Karol G