Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a 1979 soft rock hit by Rupert Holmes, famous for its catchy chorus about personal ads and piña coladas that became a pop culture staple.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Escape (The Piña Colada Song) canonical | 6 |
| The Piña Colada Song | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1649075 — 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: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) Context triple: [Rupert Holmes, notableWork, Escape (The Piña Colada Song)]
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A.
Oye Como Va
"Oye Como Va" is a classic Latin rock song, originally written by Tito Puente and popularized worldwide by Santana’s 1970 rendition blending Afro-Cuban rhythms with electric guitar.
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B.
Flamenco Beach
Flamenco Beach is a renowned white-sand, turquoise-water beach on the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico, often ranked among the most beautiful beaches in the world.
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C.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
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D.
Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 Hollywood musical film best known for featuring the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, helping launch their legendary dance partnership.
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E.
Walking on Sunshine
"Walking on Sunshine" is a 2014 British jukebox musical romantic comedy film set in Italy, featuring popular 1980s songs and an ensemble cast including Greg Wise.
- 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: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) Target entity description: "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a 1979 soft rock hit by Rupert Holmes, famous for its catchy chorus about personal ads and piña coladas that became a pop culture staple.
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A.
Oye Como Va
"Oye Como Va" is a classic Latin rock song, originally written by Tito Puente and popularized worldwide by Santana’s 1970 rendition blending Afro-Cuban rhythms with electric guitar.
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B.
Flamenco Beach
Flamenco Beach is a renowned white-sand, turquoise-water beach on the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico, often ranked among the most beautiful beaches in the world.
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C.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
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D.
Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 Hollywood musical film best known for featuring the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, helping launch their legendary dance partnership.
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E.
Walking on Sunshine
"Walking on Sunshine" is a 2014 British jukebox musical romantic comedy film set in Italy, featuring popular 1980s songs and an ensemble cast including Greg Wise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Partners in Crime ⓘ |
| artist | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| associatedWithEra | late 1970s pop music ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
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surface form:
US Billboard Hot 100 number one
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| composer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| describedAs | soft rock hit ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
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soft rock ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle |
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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surface form:
The Piña Colada Song
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| hasBeverageReference | piña colada ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric |
And getting caught in the rain
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If you like piña coladas ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
became a pop culture staple
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frequently used in films and television ⓘ widely played on classic hits radio ⓘ |
| hasHook | If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain ⓘ |
| hasMotif | personal advertisement in newspaper ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTwist | personal ad respondent is narrator's partner ⓘ |
| hasNotableInstrument |
acoustic guitar
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keyboards ⓘ saxophone ⓘ |
| hasSetting | beach bar ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle |
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Piña Colada Song
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| includedInAlbum | Partners in Crime ⓘ |
| label | Infinity Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 4:37 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl single ⓘ |
| peakChartPosition |
1 on Canada RPM Top Singles
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1 on US Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| performer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| producer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1979 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-09 ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | pop culture references ⓘ |
| theme |
infidelity
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personal ads ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| writer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
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: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) Description of subject: "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a 1979 soft rock hit by Rupert Holmes, famous for its catchy chorus about personal ads and piña coladas that became a pop culture staple.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Piña Colada Song
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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hasSubtitle
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Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
The Piña Colada Song
subject surface form:
Rupert Holmes