Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video)
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"Scream" is a high-budget, visually innovative 1995 music video featuring Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, renowned for its futuristic black-and-white aesthetic and intense choreography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6262218 — 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: Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video) Context triple: [Mark Romanek, notableWork, Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video)]
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A.
Michael Jackson’s Bad (music video)
Michael Jackson’s "Bad" music video is an iconic 1987 short film-style music video directed by Martin Scorsese that helped define Jackson’s edgy, street-influenced image during the Bad era.
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B.
Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is a landmark 1983 short film–style music video, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects, elaborate choreography, and enduring influence on pop culture and the music video medium.
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C.
“Freak Me” (Silk) music video
The “Freak Me” music video by Silk is a sensual early-1990s R&B visual directed by Paul Hunter that helped define the group’s slow-jam image and contributed to the song’s mainstream success.
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D.
“They Don’t Care About Us” (Michael Jackson) music video
The “They Don’t Care About Us” music video is a politically charged Michael Jackson visual work, directed by Paul Hunter, that confronts themes of social injustice and human rights abuses.
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E.
“Señorita” (Justin Timberlake) music video
The “Señorita” music video is a stylish, performance-focused visual for Justin Timberlake’s Latin-influenced R&B single, featuring a lively club setting, interactive crowd scenes, and smooth choreography that highlight his early solo persona.
- 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: Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video) Target entity description: "Scream" is a high-budget, visually innovative 1995 music video featuring Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, renowned for its futuristic black-and-white aesthetic and intense choreography.
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A.
Michael Jackson’s Bad (music video)
Michael Jackson’s "Bad" music video is an iconic 1987 short film-style music video directed by Martin Scorsese that helped define Jackson’s edgy, street-influenced image during the Bad era.
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B.
Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is a landmark 1983 short film–style music video, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects, elaborate choreography, and enduring influence on pop culture and the music video medium.
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C.
“Freak Me” (Silk) music video
The “Freak Me” music video by Silk is a sensual early-1990s R&B visual directed by Paul Hunter that helped define the group’s slow-jam image and contributed to the song’s mainstream success.
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D.
“They Don’t Care About Us” (Michael Jackson) music video
The “They Don’t Care About Us” music video is a politically charged Michael Jackson visual work, directed by Paul Hunter, that confronts themes of social injustice and human rights abuses.
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E.
“Señorita” (Justin Timberlake) music video
The “Señorita” music video is a stylish, performance-focused visual for Justin Timberlake’s Latin-influenced R&B single, featuring a lively club setting, interactive crowd scenes, and smooth choreography that highlight his early solo persona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music video
ⓘ
short film ⓘ |
| artDirector |
Brigitte Broch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Foden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAlbum | HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| basedOnSong | Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| budget | approximately 7 million US dollars ⓘ |
| choreographyBy |
LaVelle Smith Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travis Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harris Savides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Mark Romanek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Robert Duffy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredArtist |
Janet Jackson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTechnique |
computer-generated imagery
ⓘ
wire work ⓘ |
| genre |
dance music video
ⓘ
pop music video ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction in a Video
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography in a Video NERFINISHED ⓘ MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video NERFINISHED ⓘ MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects in a Video NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high production budget
ⓘ
innovative visual effects ⓘ intense choreography ⓘ |
| performer |
Janet Jackson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ceán Chaffin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janet Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Optic Nerve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the most expensive music videos ever made ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Epic Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1995-05-31 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 4 minutes 45 seconds ⓘ |
| setDesigner |
Brigitte Broch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Foden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | spaceship ⓘ |
| theme |
isolation
ⓘ
media pressure ⓘ sibling solidarity ⓘ |
| title | Scream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
black-and-white
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futuristic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson music video) Description of subject: "Scream" is a high-budget, visually innovative 1995 music video featuring Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, renowned for its futuristic black-and-white aesthetic and intense choreography.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.