More Sweetly Play the Dance
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More Sweetly Play the Dance is a multi-channel video installation by South African artist William Kentridge that presents a haunting, processional meditation on politics, mortality, and collective struggle through animated drawings and silhouetted figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| More Sweetly Play the Dance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4793056 — 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: More Sweetly Play the Dance Context triple: [William Kentridge, notableWork, More Sweetly Play the Dance]
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A.
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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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.
Sweet Sucker Dance
"Sweet Sucker Dance" is a jazz composition by bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, noted for its rich orchestration and emotionally expressive, blues-inflected style.
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D.
Sweeter
"Sweeter" is a soulful pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its catchy melody and emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Dance Dance Dance
"Dance Dance Dance" is a surreal, introspective novel by Haruki Murakami that follows a disenchanted narrator navigating a mysterious hotel, lost connections, and the blurred boundaries between reality and the subconscious.
- 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: More Sweetly Play the Dance Target entity description: More Sweetly Play the Dance is a multi-channel video installation by South African artist William Kentridge that presents a haunting, processional meditation on politics, mortality, and collective struggle through animated drawings and silhouetted figures.
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A.
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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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.
Sweet Sucker Dance
"Sweet Sucker Dance" is a jazz composition by bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, noted for its rich orchestration and emotionally expressive, blues-inflected style.
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D.
Sweeter
"Sweeter" is a soulful pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its catchy melody and emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Dance Dance Dance
"Dance Dance Dance" is a surreal, introspective novel by Haruki Murakami that follows a disenchanted narrator navigating a mysterious hotel, lost connections, and the blurred boundaries between reality and the subconscious.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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multi-channel video installation ⓘ video installation ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
charcoal sketch aesthetic
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hand-drawn animation ⓘ shadow play ⓘ |
| artMovement | contemporary South African art ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Africa ⓘ |
| creator | William Kentridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
dancers
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marching figures ⓘ musicians ⓘ people carrying possessions ⓘ people pulling medical drips ⓘ refugee-like procession ⓘ silhouetted figures ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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installation art ⓘ video art ⓘ |
| hasInfluence |
funerary processions
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political history of South Africa ⓘ processional rituals ⓘ protest marches ⓘ |
| hasPart |
looped video sequences
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multiple projection screens ⓘ soundtrack ⓘ voice-over ⓘ |
| intendedSetting |
art museum
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contemporary art gallery ⓘ large-scale exhibition space ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
collective struggle
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mortality ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| movement | processional movement ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | procession ⓘ |
| notableFor |
haunting processional imagery
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immersive multi-screen environment ⓘ politically charged visual metaphors ⓘ |
| theme |
collective memory
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death ⓘ displacement ⓘ exodus ⓘ political violence ⓘ resilience ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
animation
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charcoal drawing ⓘ silhouette ⓘ |
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: More Sweetly Play the Dance Description of subject: More Sweetly Play the Dance is a multi-channel video installation by South African artist William Kentridge that presents a haunting, processional meditation on politics, mortality, and collective struggle through animated drawings and silhouetted figures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.