Ten Cents a Dance
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Ten Cents a Dance is a popular 1930 torch song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, known for its melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ten Cents a Dance canonical | 8 |
| Ten Cents a Dance (jazz standard) | 1 |
| Ten Cents a Dance (popular song) | 1 |
| Ten Cents a Dance (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T529249 — 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: Ten Cents a Dance Context triple: [Richard Rodgers, notableWork, Ten Cents a Dance]
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A.
The Harvey Girls
The Harvey Girls is a 1946 Technicolor musical film starring Judy Garland, celebrated for its lively songs and romanticized portrayal of waitresses who helped civilize the American West.
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B.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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C.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
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D.
Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings is a 1957 musical film adaptation of the stage musical (itself based on the film Ninotchka), best known for starring Fred Astaire in one of his final major screen musical roles.
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E.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
- 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: Ten Cents a Dance Target entity description: Ten Cents a Dance is a popular 1930 torch song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, known for its melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life.
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A.
The Harvey Girls
The Harvey Girls is a 1946 Technicolor musical film starring Judy Garland, celebrated for its lively songs and romanticized portrayal of waitresses who helped civilize the American West.
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B.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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C.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
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D.
Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings is a 1957 musical film adaptation of the stage musical (itself based on the film Ninotchka), best known for starring Fred Astaire in one of his final major screen musical roles.
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E.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
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torch song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart songwriting partnership
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linked to:
Rodgers and Hart songwriting partnership
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| composer | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
dance hall work
ⓘ
working-class struggle ⓘ |
| describes | taxi dancer’s life ⓘ |
| era | Great Depression era popular song ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
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torch song ⓘ |
| hasForm | popular song form ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later torch songs about working women ⓘ |
| hasSubject | taxi dancer ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Ten Cents a Dance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combination of witty lyrics and sad subject matter
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melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vocal music ⓘ |
| partOf | American songbook repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| theme |
economic hardship
ⓘ
exploitation ⓘ melancholy ⓘ romantic disillusionment ⓘ |
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: Ten Cents a Dance Description of subject: Ten Cents a Dance is a popular 1930 torch song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, known for its melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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