Shadow Dancing
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"Shadow Dancing" is a 1978 disco-pop hit single by Andy Gibb that became one of his most successful and recognizable songs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shadow Dancing canonical | 1 |
| Shadow Dancing (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4586926 — 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: Shadow Dancing Context triple: [Andy Gibb, notableWork, Shadow Dancing]
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A.
The Shadow Waltz
"The Shadow Waltz" is a memorable musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Gold Diggers of 1933*, noted for its elaborate choreography and use of neon-lit violins.
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B.
The Dance
"The Dance" is a painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, exemplifying his elegant, theatrical scenes of aristocratic leisure and refined movement.
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C.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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D.
Dance of the Clairvoyants
"Dance of the Clairvoyants" is an experimental, synth-driven rock song by Pearl Jam that marked a stylistic departure for the band upon its release as a single from their 2020 album "Gigaton."
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E.
The Dance of Life
The Dance of Life is a famous 1899–1900 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that explores themes of love, anxiety, and the human life cycle through a symbolic seaside dance scene.
- 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: Shadow Dancing Target entity description: "Shadow Dancing" is a 1978 disco-pop hit single by Andy Gibb that became one of his most successful and recognizable songs.
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A.
The Shadow Waltz
"The Shadow Waltz" is a memorable musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Gold Diggers of 1933*, noted for its elaborate choreography and use of neon-lit violins.
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B.
The Dance
"The Dance" is a painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, exemplifying his elegant, theatrical scenes of aristocratic leisure and refined movement.
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C.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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D.
Dance of the Clairvoyants
"Dance of the Clairvoyants" is an experimental, synth-driven rock song by Pearl Jam that marked a stylistic departure for the band upon its release as a single from their 2020 album "Gigaton."
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E.
The Dance of Life
The Dance of Life is a famous 1899–1900 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that explores themes of love, anxiety, and the human life cycle through a symbolic seaside dance scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Shadow Dancing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Andy Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Bee Gees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Let It Be Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certification |
Music Canada platinum
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RIAA platinum ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Canada RPM Top Singles number one
ⓘ
UK Singles Chart number 42 ⓘ US Billboard Adult Contemporary number three ⓘ US Billboard Hot 100 number one ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstChartSuccess | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsSingle | (Love Is) Thicker Than Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
disco
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pop ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | one of Andy Gibb's signature songs ⓘ |
| hasSongwriterRelationshipWith | Bee Gees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTitleTrackOf | Shadow Dancing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label | RSO Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:34 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Andy Gibb's third consecutive US number-one single ⓘ |
| partOf | late 1970s disco era ⓘ |
| performer | Andy Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesSingle | An Everlasting Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Albhy Galuten
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barry Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ Gibb-Galuten-Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1977 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| tempo | danceable mid-to-up-tempo ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | falsetto-influenced pop vocal ⓘ |
| weeksAtNumberOne | 7 ⓘ |
| writer |
Andy Gibb
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barry Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Gibb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearEndRanking | Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1978 number one NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shadow Dancing Description of subject: "Shadow Dancing" is a 1978 disco-pop hit single by Andy Gibb that became one of his most successful and recognizable songs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shadow Dancing (album)