Dancing on the Edge
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Dancing on the Edge is a British period drama television series that follows a Black jazz band navigating fame and racial tensions in 1930s London.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dancing on the Edge canonical | 3 |
| Dancing on the Edge (TV series) | 1 |
| Dancing on the Edge episode 2 | 1 |
| Dancing on the Edge episode 3 | 1 |
| Dancing on the Edge episode 4 | 1 |
| Dancing on the Edge episode 5 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3405345 — 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: Dancing on the Edge Context triple: [Matthew Goode, notableWork, Dancing on the Edge]
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A.
Life Is a Dance
"Life Is a Dance" is a funk-infused R&B song by American singer Chaka Khan, showcasing her powerful vocals and signature 1970s soul style.
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B.
Big Dance
Big Dance is a popular nickname for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the annual championship event of college basketball in the United States.
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C.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Dancing on the Ceiling is a 1986 pop song by Lionel Richie known for its upbeat, celebratory style and innovative music video featuring gravity-defying dance scenes.
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D.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is one of Bruce Springsteen's most famous rock songs, known for its upbeat sound, introspective lyrics, and iconic music video featuring a young Courteney Cox.
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E.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is a classic popular song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, best known as a romantic dance number introduced in the 1931 revue "The Band Wagon" and later featured in its 1953 film adaptation.
- 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: Dancing on the Edge Target entity description: Dancing on the Edge is a British period drama television series that follows a Black jazz band navigating fame and racial tensions in 1930s London.
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A.
Life Is a Dance
"Life Is a Dance" is a funk-infused R&B song by American singer Chaka Khan, showcasing her powerful vocals and signature 1970s soul style.
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B.
Big Dance
Big Dance is a popular nickname for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the annual championship event of college basketball in the United States.
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C.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Dancing on the Ceiling is a 1986 pop song by Lionel Richie known for its upbeat, celebratory style and innovative music video featuring gravity-defying dance scenes.
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D.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is one of Bruce Springsteen's most famous rock songs, known for its upbeat sound, introspective lyrics, and iconic music video featuring a young Courteney Cox.
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E.
Dancing in the Dark
"Dancing in the Dark" is a classic popular song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, best known as a romantic dance number introduced in the 1931 revue "The Band Wagon" and later featured in its 1953 film adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television series
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drama television series ⓘ period drama television series ⓘ |
| composer | Adrian Johnston ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen Poliakoff ⓘ |
| director | Stephen Poliakoff ⓘ |
| distributor | BBC Worldwide ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Alison Owen
ⓘ
Lucy Richer ⓘ Stephen Poliakoff ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2013 ⓘ |
| format | miniseries ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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period drama ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Dancing on the Edge episode 1
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Dancing on the Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 2
Dancing on the Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 3
Dancing on the Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 4
Dancing on the Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 5
|
| mainSubject |
Black jazz band
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fame ⓘ jazz music ⓘ racism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Black jazz musicians in 1930s London
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interaction between high society and jazz culture ⓘ racial tensions in British society ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | BBC Two ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC Two ⓘ |
| producer | Nicky Kentish Barnes ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC
ⓘ
Ruby Films ⓘ
surface form:
Ruby Film and Television
|
| settingPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| settingTime | 1930s ⓘ |
| stars |
Angel Coulby
ⓘ
Anthony Stewart Head ⓘ
surface form:
Anthony Head
Chiwetel Ejiofor ⓘ Jacqueline Bisset ⓘ Janet Montgomery ⓘ Jenna-Louise Coleman ⓘ
surface form:
Jenna Coleman
John Goodman ⓘ Matthew Goode ⓘ Sam Hoare ⓘ Tom Hughes ⓘ Wunmi Mosaku ⓘ |
| writer | Stephen Poliakoff ⓘ |
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: Dancing on the Edge Description of subject: Dancing on the Edge is a British period drama television series that follows a Black jazz band navigating fame and racial tensions in 1930s London.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 2
this entity surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 3
this entity surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 4
this entity surface form:
Dancing on the Edge episode 5
this entity surface form:
Dancing on the Edge (TV series)