“Let’s Hear It for the Boy”
E1034920
“Let’s Hear It for the Boy” is a 1984 pop song, famously performed by Deniece Williams and featured on the Footloose film soundtrack, that became a major hit and signature tune of the era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13338020 — 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: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” Context triple: [Dean Pitchford, notableWork, “Let’s Hear It for the Boy”]
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A.
That’s My Boy
"That’s My Boy" is a 2012 American comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, centered on the chaotic relationship between an immature father and his estranged son.
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B.
This Boy
"This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
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C.
Like a Boy
"Like a Boy" is a 2007 R&B single by Ciara that explores gender double standards in relationships through a role-reversal concept and assertive lyrics.
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D.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is a song featured in the stage adaptation of "9 to 5: The Musical," contributing to the show's country-pop-infused Broadway score.
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E.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is the 2008 major-label breakthrough pop album by Katy Perry, featuring hits like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" that established her international fame.
- 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: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” Target entity description: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” is a 1984 pop song, famously performed by Deniece Williams and featured on the Footloose film soundtrack, that became a major hit and signature tune of the era.
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A.
That’s My Boy
"That’s My Boy" is a 2012 American comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, centered on the chaotic relationship between an immature father and his estranged son.
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B.
This Boy
"This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
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C.
Like a Boy
"Like a Boy" is a 2007 R&B single by Ciara that explores gender double standards in relationships through a role-reversal concept and assertive lyrics.
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D.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is a song featured in the stage adaptation of "9 to 5: The Musical," contributing to the show's country-pop-infused Broadway score.
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E.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is the 2008 major-label breakthrough pop album by Katy Perry, featuring hits like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" that established her international fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Let’s Hear It for the Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFilm | Footloose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| Bside | I Want You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedOn |
Billboard Adult Contemporary
NERFINISHED
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Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ Billboard Hot Black Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPeakCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| composer | Tom Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| describedAs | signature song of the 1980s ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | Deniece Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Next Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
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7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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dance-pop ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| hasCertification |
BPI Silver (single)
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RIAA Platinum (single) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInSoundtrack | Footloose: Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:21 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dean Pitchford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Diane Martel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being featured on the Footloose soundtrack ⓘ |
| partOf | Footloose (1984 film) soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Deniece Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | I’m So Proud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | George Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CBS Records
NERFINISHED
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Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1984-02-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| tempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| theme | celebration of a boyfriend ⓘ |
| titleTrackOf | Let’s Hear It for the Boy (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | Footloose (1984 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Deniece Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Dean Pitchford
NERFINISHED
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Tom Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” Description of subject: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” is a 1984 pop song, famously performed by Deniece Williams and featured on the Footloose film soundtrack, that became a major hit and signature tune of the era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.