Le Freak
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"Le Freak" is a 1978 disco classic by the band Chic, co-written and produced by bassist Bernard Edwards, and is one of the genre’s most iconic and best-selling singles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Freak canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4554158 — 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: Le Freak Context triple: [Bernard Edwards, notableWork, Le Freak]
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A.
Let’s Go Crazy
"Let’s Go Crazy" is a high-energy rock, funk, and pop song by Prince that opens the 1984 film and album "Purple Rain" and is renowned for its iconic guitar solo and sermon-like intro.
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B.
Easy Street
"Easy Street" is a 1917 silent comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character.
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C.
Funky Man
"Funky Man" is a hip-hop track by Dee Dee King, the rap alter ego of Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone, showcasing his experimental foray into rap music in the late 1980s.
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D.
Night Fever
"Night Fever" is a 1977 disco song by the Bee Gees, best known for its prominent role on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and its massive international chart success.
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E.
Freakin' Me
"Freakin' Me" is a track by will.i.am featured on his 2007 solo album "Songs About Girls," blending pop and hip-hop influences.
- 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: Le Freak Target entity description: "Le Freak" is a 1978 disco classic by the band Chic, co-written and produced by bassist Bernard Edwards, and is one of the genre’s most iconic and best-selling singles.
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A.
Let’s Go Crazy
"Let’s Go Crazy" is a high-energy rock, funk, and pop song by Prince that opens the 1984 film and album "Purple Rain" and is renowned for its iconic guitar solo and sermon-like intro.
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B.
Easy Street
"Easy Street" is a 1917 silent comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character.
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C.
Funky Man
"Funky Man" is a hip-hop track by Dee Dee King, the rap alter ego of Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone, showcasing his experimental foray into rap music in the late 1980s.
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D.
Night Fever
"Night Fever" is a 1977 disco song by the Bee Gees, best known for its prominent role on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and its massive international chart success.
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E.
Freakin' Me
"Freakin' Me" is a track by will.i.am featured on his 2007 solo album "Songs About Girls," blending pop and hip-hop influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Chic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Savoir Faire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 7 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100YearEnd1979 | 3 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSHotSoulSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| composer |
Bernard Edwards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nile Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre | disco ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric | Aaaahh, freak out! Le freak, c'est chic ⓘ |
| hasKey | A minor ⓘ |
| hasNotableBassPlayer | Bernard Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableGuitarist | Nile Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableVocalist |
Alfa Anderson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beverly Dotson NERFINISHED ⓘ Brenda White-King NERFINISHED ⓘ David Lasley NERFINISHED ⓘ Diane Sumler NERFINISHED ⓘ Diva Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ Fonzi Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ Lani Groves NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucia Houghton NERFINISHED ⓘ Luther Vandross NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Cobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Jean Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Ullanda McCullough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTempo | approximately 120 BPM ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | C'est Chic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
best-selling singles of all time
ⓘ
most iconic disco songs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 5:23 ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Bernard Edwards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nile Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Chic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Bernard Edwards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nile Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Power Station, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Atlantic Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-09-21 ⓘ |
| salesCertificationFrance | SNEP Gold ⓘ |
| salesCertificationUK | BPI Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| salesCertificationUS | RIAA Platinum ⓘ |
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: Le Freak Description of subject: "Le Freak" is a 1978 disco classic by the band Chic, co-written and produced by bassist Bernard Edwards, and is one of the genre’s most iconic and best-selling singles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.