Beat It

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"Beat It" is a 1983 rock-influenced pop song by Michael Jackson, renowned for its anti-violence message, Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitar solo, and its pivotal role in the success of the Thriller album.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Beat It canonical 14
Beat It (Michael Jackson music video) 1
Beat It (music video) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album Thriller (album)
surface form: Thriller
artist Michael Jackson
award American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single
American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Single
Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
bpm 138
chartPositionUKSinglesChart 3
chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 1
chartPositionUSMainstreamRock 1
composer Michael Jackson
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followsSingle Billie Jean
genre pop
rock
rock-influenced pop
guitarSoloBy Eddie Van Halen
hasCoverVersion Beat It cover by Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer
hasMusicVideo Beat It music video
hasParody Eat It
surface form: Eat It by Weird Al Yankovic
includedIn Thriller (album)
surface form: Michael Jackson album Thriller
key E minor
language English
leadGuitarist Eddie Van Halen
length 4:18
lyricSubject discouraging street violence
musicVideoDirector Bob Giraldi
notableFor Eddie Van Halen guitar solo
fusion of rock and pop
influential music video with choreographed gang confrontation
partOf Thriller (album)
surface form: Thriller
performer Michael Jackson
precedesSingle Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
surface form: Wanna Be Startin Somethin
producer Michael Jackson
Quincy Jones
recordingPeriod 1982
recordLabel Epic
Epic Records
releaseDate 1983-02-14
releaseYear 1983
rhythmGuitarist Steve Lukather
salesCertification RIAA multi-platinum single
significantIn commercial success of Thriller
theme anti-gang
anti-violence
vocalist Michael Jackson
writer Michael Jackson

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: Beat It
Description of subject: "Beat It" is a 1983 rock-influenced pop song by Michael Jackson, renowned for its anti-violence message, Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitar solo, and its pivotal role in the success of the Thriller album.

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Michael Jackson notableWork Beat It
Thriller followedBySingle Beat It
subject surface form: Thriller (song)
Eddie Van Halen performedOn Beat It
Thriller (album) hasPart Beat It
Billie Jean followedBySingle Beat It
Bad World Tour includesSong Beat It
MJ the Musical hasNotableSong Beat It
this entity surface form: Beat It / Jam medley
Number Ones includesTrack Beat It
Bob Giraldi notableWork Beat It
this entity surface form: Beat It (music video)
Bob Giraldi directed Beat It
this entity surface form: Beat It (Michael Jackson music video)