Dancing in the Dark
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"Dancing in the Dark" is a classic popular song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, best known as a romantic dance number introduced in the 1931 revue "The Band Wagon" and later featured in its 1953 film adaptation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dancing in the Dark canonical | 10 |
| Arthur Schwartz – Dancing in the Dark | 1 |
| Dancing in the Dark number in The Band Wagon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031157 — 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: Dancing in the Dark Context triple: [The Band Wagon, notableSong, Dancing in the Dark]
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A.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is one of Bruce Springsteen's most famous rock songs, known for its upbeat sound, introspective lyrics, and iconic music video featuring a young Courteney Cox.
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B.
Dance the Night
"Dance the Night" is a disco-pop song by Dua Lipa, best known for its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 2023 film *Barbie*.
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C.
Tonight's the Night
"Tonight's the Night" is a 1975 album by Neil Young, renowned for its raw, emotionally stark songs reflecting on loss and the darker side of the rock lifestyle.
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D.
We Own the Night
We Own the Night is a 2007 American crime drama film about a New York City nightclub manager caught between his family of police officers and the Russian mob.
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E.
I Could Have Danced All Night
"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a famous show tune from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady," widely recognized as one of its signature songs.
- 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: Dancing in the Dark Target entity description: "Dancing in the Dark" is a classic popular song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, best known as a romantic dance number introduced in the 1931 revue "The Band Wagon" and later featured in its 1953 film adaptation.
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A.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is one of Bruce Springsteen's most famous rock songs, known for its upbeat sound, introspective lyrics, and iconic music video featuring a young Courteney Cox.
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B.
Dance the Night
"Dance the Night" is a disco-pop song by Dua Lipa, best known for its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 2023 film *Barbie*.
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C.
Tonight's the Night
"Tonight's the Night" is a 1975 album by Neil Young, renowned for its raw, emotionally stark songs reflecting on loss and the darker side of the rock lifestyle.
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D.
We Own the Night
We Own the Night is a 2007 American crime drama film about a New York City nightclub manager caught between his family of police officers and the Russian mob.
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E.
I Could Have Danced All Night
"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a famous show tune from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady," widely recognized as one of its signature songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
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song ⓘ standard ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz
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linked to:
Arthur Schwartz
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| associatedWith | The Band Wagon ⓘ |
| composer | Arthur Schwartz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
The Band Wagon (1953 film)
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linked to:
The Band Wagon
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| firstAppearanceIn | The Band Wagon (1931 stage revue) ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz standard
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popular music ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasLyricalStyle | romantic ⓘ |
| hasMelodicStyle | lyrical ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dancing in the Dark ⓘ |
| hasType |
Broadway song
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film musical song ⓘ |
| introducedAs | romantic dance number ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
The Band Wagon (1931 Broadway revue)
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linked to:
The Band Wagon (1931 stage revue)
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| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Howard Dietz ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Howard Dietz ⓘ |
| musicBy | Arthur Schwartz ⓘ |
| notableFor | romantic ballroom dance sequence in The Band Wagon (1953 film) ⓘ |
| notableMedium |
film musical
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stage revue ⓘ |
| partOf |
score of The Band Wagon (stage)
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soundtrack of The Band Wagon (1953 film) ⓘ |
| performancePractice | often performed as a slow dance number ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | romantic love ⓘ |
| usedAs | dance sequence music in The Band Wagon (1953 film) ⓘ |
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: Dancing in the Dark Description of subject: "Dancing in the Dark" is a classic popular song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, best known as a romantic dance number introduced in the 1931 revue "The Band Wagon" and later featured in its 1953 film adaptation.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dancing in the Dark
subject linked to:
album "The Look of Love"
linked to: Dancing in the Dark