Rock the Boat
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"Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rock the Boat canonical | 3 |
| Rock the Boat (remix) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3258981 — 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: Rock the Boat Context triple: [Aaliyah, notableWork, Rock the Boat]
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A.
I’m on a Boat
"I’m on a Boat" is a comedic hip-hop song and viral digital short by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain, known for parodying rap video tropes with absurd, over-the-top yacht imagery.
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B.
I’m a Rocker
"I’m a Rocker" is a high-energy rock song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, showcasing his classic bar-band sound and exuberant performance style.
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C.
Rock the Bells
"Rock the Bells" is a classic 1985 hip-hop track by LL Cool J known for its aggressive delivery, heavy use of DJ scratching, and influential role in defining the sound of early hardcore rap.
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D.
Sail On
"Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
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E.
Let’s Roll
"Let’s Roll" is a blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a contemporary, guitar-driven setting.
- 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: Rock the Boat Target entity description: "Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
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A.
I’m on a Boat
"I’m on a Boat" is a comedic hip-hop song and viral digital short by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain, known for parodying rap video tropes with absurd, over-the-top yacht imagery.
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B.
I’m a Rocker
"I’m a Rocker" is a high-energy rock song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, showcasing his classic bar-band sound and exuberant performance style.
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C.
Rock the Bells
"Rock the Bells" is a classic 1985 hip-hop track by LL Cool J known for its aggressive delivery, heavy use of DJ scratching, and influential role in defining the sound of early hardcore rap.
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D.
Sail On
"Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
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E.
Let’s Roll
"Let’s Roll" is a blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a contemporary, guitar-driven setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Rock the Boat Description of subject: "Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rock the Boat (remix)