Bang the Drum All Day
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"Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 novelty rock song by Todd Rundgren, best known as an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek anthem about avoiding work and responsibility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bang the Drum All Day canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10225915 — 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: Bang the Drum All Day Context triple: [Todd Rundgren, notableSong, Bang the Drum All Day]
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A.
She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
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B.
Bop Till You Drop
Bop Till You Drop is a 1979 roots-rock and R&B-influenced album by American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, notable as one of the first major-label digitally recorded rock albums.
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C.
One Way Out
One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
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D.
All Day and All of the Night
"All Day and All of the Night" is a 1964 hard-driving rock song by the Kinks, celebrated as one of the defining early British Invasion and proto–hard rock tracks.
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E.
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
"It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere" is a popular country song, famously performed by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, that became a summertime anthem celebrating carefree, beachside drinking.
- 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: Bang the Drum All Day Target entity description: "Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 novelty rock song by Todd Rundgren, best known as an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek anthem about avoiding work and responsibility.
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A.
She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
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B.
Bop Till You Drop
Bop Till You Drop is a 1979 roots-rock and R&B-influenced album by American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, notable as one of the first major-label digitally recorded rock albums.
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C.
One Way Out
One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
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D.
All Day and All of the Night
"All Day and All of the Night" is a 1964 hard-driving rock song by the Kinks, celebrated as one of the defining early British Invasion and proto–hard rock tracks.
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E.
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
"It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere" is a popular country song, famously performed by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, that became a summertime anthem celebrating carefree, beachside drinking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | appeared on US rock and pop charts ⓘ |
| chorusLine | I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day ⓘ |
| composer | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1980s ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Something to Fall Back On ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
novelty song
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Drive ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | widely recognized as an anti-work anthem ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, the boss is a jerk
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When I get older they think I'm a fool, the teacher told me I should stay after school ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
tongue-in-cheek
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upbeat ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricist | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| originalAlbumReleaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| partOfDiscographyOf | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| performer | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | Hideaway ⓘ |
| producer | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Todd Rundgren ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Bearsville Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-03-?? ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| theme |
anti-work anthem
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avoiding work ⓘ celebration of leisure ⓘ |
| usedAs |
goal celebration song
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sports arena anthem ⓘ touchdown celebration song ⓘ |
| usedInMedium |
advertising
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film ⓘ television ⓘ |
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: Bang the Drum All Day Description of subject: "Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 novelty rock song by Todd Rundgren, best known as an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek anthem about avoiding work and responsibility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rundgren