Conga
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"Conga" is a 1985 Latin pop-dance hit by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine that popularized Latin rhythms in mainstream American pop music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Conga canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5577919 — 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: Conga Context triple: [Gloria Estefan, notableWork, Conga]
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A.
Conga!
"Conga!" is a lively musical number from the 1953 Broadway musical *Wonderful Town*, known for its energetic Latin-inspired rhythm and ensemble choreography.
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B.
Samba Pa Ti
"Samba Pa Ti" is an instrumental Latin rock ballad by guitarist Carlos Santana, renowned for its expressive, melodic guitar work and enduring popularity since its release in 1970.
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C.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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D.
Syncopation
Syncopation is a 1942 American musical drama film centered on the history and development of jazz music.
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E.
Azonto
Azonto is a popular Ghanaian dance and music style characterized by fast-paced rhythms and expressive, often humorous body movements.
- 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: Conga Target entity description: "Conga" is a 1985 Latin pop-dance hit by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine that popularized Latin rhythms in mainstream American pop music.
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A.
Conga!
"Conga!" is a lively musical number from the 1953 Broadway musical *Wonderful Town*, known for its energetic Latin-inspired rhythm and ensemble choreography.
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B.
Samba Pa Ti
"Samba Pa Ti" is an instrumental Latin rock ballad by guitarist Carlos Santana, renowned for its expressive, melodic guitar work and enduring popularity since its release in 1970.
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C.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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D.
Syncopation
Syncopation is a 1942 American musical drama film centered on the history and development of jazz music.
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E.
Azonto
Azonto is a popular Ghanaian dance and music style characterized by fast-paced rhythms and expressive, often humorous body movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Miami Sound Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDance | conga line ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit
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Billboard Hot Dance Club Play hit ⓘ Billboard Hot Latin Songs hit ⓘ |
| chronologyFollowedBy | Bad Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyFollows | Dr. Beat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Enrique Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
Latin freestyle
ⓘ
Latin pop ⓘ dance-pop ⓘ |
| has12InchMixLength | 6:00 ⓘ |
| hasBand | Miami Sound Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBside | Mucho Money NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
became a staple of 1980s dance music
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widely used at parties and sporting events ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| hasLength | 4:14 ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Conga (live) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainArtist | Gloria Estefan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
dance-oriented tempo
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horn section riffs ⓘ syncopated Latin percussion ⓘ |
| hasRadioEditLength | 4:14 ⓘ |
| hasReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| hasSignatureLine | Come on, shake your body, baby, do the conga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingleType | lead single ⓘ |
| includedInTourSetlist |
Gloria Estefan world tours
ⓘ
Let It Loose Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Primitive Love Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Enrique Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Don Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing Latin rhythms in mainstream American pop music ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Primitive Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Miami Sound Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerNationality | Cuban-American ⓘ |
| producer |
Emilio Estefan Jr.
NERFINISHED
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Lawrence Dermer NERFINISHED ⓘ Rafael Vigil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Epic Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| vocalist | Gloria Estefan 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: Conga Description of subject: "Conga" is a 1985 Latin pop-dance hit by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine that popularized Latin rhythms in mainstream American pop music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.