Footloose
E136586
Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film, starring Kevin Bacon, about a teenager who challenges a small town’s ban on dancing.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Footloose canonical | 16 |
| Footloose (1984 film) | 5 |
| “Footloose” (song) | 4 |
| Footloose (stage musical) | 3 |
| "Footloose" | 1 |
| Footloose (2011 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197593 — 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: Footloose Context triple: [Craig Zadan, notableWork, Footloose]
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A.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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B.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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C.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
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D.
Sister Act
Sister Act is a popular 1992 musical comedy film in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a lounge singer who hides in a convent under witness protection, leading to comedic and musical chaos.
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E.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
- 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: Footloose Target entity description: Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film, starring Kevin Bacon, about a teenager who challenges a small town’s ban on dancing.
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A.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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B.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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C.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
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D.
Sister Act
Sister Act is a popular 1992 musical comedy film in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a lounge singer who hides in a convent under witness protection, leading to comedic and musical chaos.
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E.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Footloose Description of subject: Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film, starring Kevin Bacon, about a teenager who challenges a small town’s ban on dancing.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose
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Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose
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subject linked to:
Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose
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