The Skeleton Dance
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The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 black-and-white animated short film from Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, famous for its macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons dancing in a graveyard synchronized to music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Skeleton Dance canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7644565 — 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 Skeleton Dance Context triple: [Ub Iwerks, notableWork, The Skeleton Dance]
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A.
The Dance
The Dance is a painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, known for its dynamic composition and elegant depiction of figures in motion.
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B.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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C.
The Dance
"The Dance" is a painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, exemplifying his elegant, theatrical scenes of aristocratic leisure and refined movement.
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D.
The Jitterbug
The Jitterbug is a song written for but ultimately cut from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," remembered today as a notable work by lyricist E. Y. Harburg.
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E.
Sweet Sucker Dance
"Sweet Sucker Dance" is a jazz composition by bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, noted for its rich orchestration and emotionally expressive, blues-inflected style.
- 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 Skeleton Dance Target entity description: The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 black-and-white animated short film from Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, famous for its macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons dancing in a graveyard synchronized to music.
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A.
The Dance
The Dance is a painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, known for its dynamic composition and elegant depiction of figures in motion.
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B.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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C.
The Dance
"The Dance" is a painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, exemplifying his elegant, theatrical scenes of aristocratic leisure and refined movement.
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D.
The Jitterbug
The Jitterbug is a song written for but ultimately cut from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," remembered today as a notable work by lyricist E. Y. Harburg.
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E.
Sweet Sucker Dance
"Sweet Sucker Dance" is a jazz composition by bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, noted for its rich orchestration and emotionally expressive, blues-inflected style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Silly Symphonies film
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animated short film ⓘ black-and-white film ⓘ |
| animationStudio |
Walt Disney Studio
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linked to:
Walt Disney Productions
|
| animationTechnique | hand-drawn animation ⓘ |
| animator | Ub Iwerks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Carl W. Stalling
ⓘ
Ub Iwerks ⓘ Walt Disney ⓘ |
| director | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| features |
dancing skeletons
ⓘ
synchronized animation and music ⓘ |
| filmColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
animated comedy
ⓘ
horror comedy ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
cats
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dogs ⓘ owls ⓘ skeletons ⓘ |
| hasTheme | humorous treatment of death and the macabre ⓘ |
| includedIn | various Disney compilation releases ⓘ |
| influenced | later horror-themed animated shorts ⓘ |
| influencedBy | classical music concert pieces ⓘ |
| locationDepicted | cemetery ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Carl W. Stalling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Silly Symphonies cartoon
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macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons ⓘ pioneering synchronization of music and animation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden Age of American animation ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1929-08-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 6 ⓘ |
| series | Silly Symphonies ⓘ |
| setting | graveyard ⓘ |
| sound | synchronized soundtrack ⓘ |
| style |
slapstick comedy
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visual music synchronization ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | nighttime ⓘ |
| title | The Skeleton Dance ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Skeleton Dance Description of subject: The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 black-and-white animated short film from Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, famous for its macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons dancing in a graveyard synchronized to music.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.