The Tide Is High
E506766
"The Tide Is High" is a reggae-influenced pop song best known for Blondie’s 1980 chart-topping cover, which became one of the band’s signature hits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tide Is High canonical | 4 |
| The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5255307 — 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: The Tide Is High Context triple: [Blondie, notableWork, The Tide Is High]
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A.
The Tide
The Tide is a common shorthand for the University of Alabama’s storied Crimson Tide athletic programs, especially its powerhouse college football team.
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B.
The Tide
The Tide is a light rail transit system serving the city of Norfolk in southeastern Virginia.
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C.
High Tide
High Tide is a television series produced by PBL Productions, best known for its blend of adventure and drama set against coastal and oceanfront backdrops.
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D.
Ebb Tide
Ebb Tide is a 1932 film featuring American actress Frances Farmer in one of her early notable screen roles.
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E.
Tidal
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-owned business model.
- 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: The Tide Is High Target entity description: "The Tide Is High" is a reggae-influenced pop song best known for Blondie’s 1980 chart-topping cover, which became one of the band’s signature hits.
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A.
The Tide
The Tide is a common shorthand for the University of Alabama’s storied Crimson Tide athletic programs, especially its powerhouse college football team.
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B.
The Tide
The Tide is a light rail transit system serving the city of Norfolk in southeastern Virginia.
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C.
High Tide
High Tide is a television series produced by PBL Productions, best known for its blend of adventure and drama set against coastal and oceanfront backdrops.
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D.
Ebb Tide
Ebb Tide is a 1932 film featuring American actress Frances Farmer in one of her early notable screen roles.
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E.
Tidal
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-owned business model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Autoamerican NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Susie and Jeffrey ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
UK Singles Chart number one
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Billboard Hot 100 number one NERFINISHED ⓘ number one in Canada ⓘ number one in New Zealand ⓘ number one in South Africa ⓘ |
| composer | John Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Jamaica
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
reggae ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
The Tide Is High (Atomic Kitten song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Tide Is High (Blondie song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
horns
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ strings ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | The Tide Is High (Blondie music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Blondie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 4 minutes 40 seconds ⓘ |
| lyricist | John Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLabel | Treasure Isle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | The Paragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| partOf | Autoamerican NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Atomic Kitten
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blondie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Mike Chapman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Chrysalis Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Innocent Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1980
ⓘ
2002 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Debbie Harry 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: The Tide Is High Description of subject: "The Tide Is High" is a reggae-influenced pop song best known for Blondie’s 1980 chart-topping cover, which became one of the band’s signature hits.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Luv Me Luv Me
this entity surface form:
The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)
this entity surface form:
The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)