The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)
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"The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" is a 1955 R&B song by Etta James that became one of her early hits and a classic of the genre.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dance with Me Henry (The Wallflower) | 1 |
| Dance with Me, Henry | 1 |
| The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2307095 — 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: The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) Context triple: [Etta James, notableSong, The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)]
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A.
Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz is a 2011 Canadian romantic drama film, written and directed by Sarah Polley, that explores the complexities of marriage and desire through the story of a young woman torn between her husband and a new attraction.
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B.
Song of Love
"Song of Love" is a 1947 biographical romantic drama film starring Paul Henreid, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Walker that portrays the life and music of composer Robert Schumann.
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C.
A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
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D.
While My Pretty One Sleeps
While My Pretty One Sleeps is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a fashion boutique owner drawn into a dangerous murder investigation in New York City.
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E.
Dance Me to the End of Love
"Dance Me to the End of Love" is a poetic, tango-inflected song by Leonard Cohen that intertwines themes of love, longing, and mortality.
- 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: The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) Target entity description: "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" is a 1955 R&B song by Etta James that became one of her early hits and a classic of the genre.
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A.
Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz is a 2011 Canadian romantic drama film, written and directed by Sarah Polley, that explores the complexities of marriage and desire through the story of a young woman torn between her husband and a new attraction.
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B.
Song of Love
"Song of Love" is a 1947 biographical romantic drama film starring Paul Henreid, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Walker that portrays the life and music of composer Robert Schumann.
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C.
A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
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D.
While My Pretty One Sleeps
While My Pretty One Sleeps is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a fashion boutique owner drawn into a dangerous murder investigation in New York City.
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E.
Dance Me to the End of Love
"Dance Me to the End of Love" is a poetic, tango-inflected song by Leonard Cohen that intertwines themes of love, longing, and mortality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rhythm and blues song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dance with Me, Henry
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)
Roll with Me, Henry ⓘ |
| basedOn | Work with Me, Annie ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | R&B hit ⓘ |
| composer |
Hank Ballard
ⓘ
Johnny Otis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1950s ⓘ |
| genre | rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Georgia Gibbs ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
Dance with Me Henry (The Wallflower)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)
|
| hasTitleWord |
Dance
ⓘ
Henry ⓘ Wallflower ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Work with Me, Annie ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Hank Ballard
ⓘ
Johnny Otis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming a rhythm and blues classic
ⓘ
being one of Etta James's early hits ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Etta James ⓘ |
| performer | Etta James ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Modern Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1955 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | dance invitation ⓘ |
| vocalist | Etta James ⓘ |
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: The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) Description of subject: "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" is a 1955 R&B song by Etta James that became one of her early hits and a classic of the genre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)
linked to: The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)