song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits)
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"Sultans of Swing" is a 1978 rock song by Dire Straits, written and sung by Mark Knopfler, renowned for its clean guitar tone, intricate solos, and storytelling lyrics that helped launch the band to international fame.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7298717 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits) Context triple: [Mark Knopfler, notableWork, song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits)]
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A.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a rockabilly-style hit single by Queen, released in 1979 and notable for its Elvis Presley-inspired sound and enduring popularity.
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B.
song "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is a 1981 rock duet by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty that became one of Nicks's signature solo hits.
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C.
"Hooked on You"
"Hooked on You" is a 2007 Hong Kong romantic comedy-drama film starring Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung that follows a supermarket worker navigating love and life pressures in contemporary Hong Kong.
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D.
Careless Whisper
Careless Whisper is a 1984 pop ballad by George Michael, renowned for its iconic saxophone riff and themes of guilt and lost love.
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E.
Baba O'Riley
"Baba O'Riley" is a classic rock song by The Who, renowned for its iconic synthesizer intro and anthemic chorus often mistaken for being titled "Teenage Wasteland."
- 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: song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits) Target entity description: "Sultans of Swing" is a 1978 rock song by Dire Straits, written and sung by Mark Knopfler, renowned for its clean guitar tone, intricate solos, and storytelling lyrics that helped launch the band to international fame.
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A.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a rockabilly-style hit single by Queen, released in 1979 and notable for its Elvis Presley-inspired sound and enduring popularity.
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B.
song "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is a 1981 rock duet by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty that became one of Nicks's signature solo hits.
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C.
"Hooked on You"
"Hooked on You" is a 2007 Hong Kong romantic comedy-drama film starring Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung that follows a supermarket worker navigating love and life pressures in contemporary Hong Kong.
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D.
Careless Whisper
Careless Whisper is a 1984 pop ballad by George Michael, renowned for its iconic saxophone riff and themes of guilt and lost love.
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E.
Baba O'Riley
"Baba O'Riley" is a classic rock song by The Who, renowned for its iconic synthesizer intro and anthemic chorus often mistaken for being titled "Teenage Wasteland."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Dire Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Eastbound Train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustraliaKentMusicReport | 10 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNetherlandsTop40 | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealandSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 8 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 4 ⓘ |
| composer | Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstRadioSupportFrom | BBC Radio London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Water of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsSingle | none (debut single) ⓘ |
| genre |
pub rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| guitarStyle | fingerpicking ⓘ |
| hasCompilationTitle | Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGuitarRecognition | frequently listed among greatest guitar songs ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion |
Sultans of Swing (Alchemy: Dire Straits Live)
NERFINISHED
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Sultans of Swing (On the Night) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | no original 1978 promo video ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Dire Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | a jazz band playing in a South London pub ⓘ |
| isBreakthroughWorkFor | Dire Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| key | D minor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 5:47 ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme | struggling jazz band playing in a nearly empty pub ⓘ |
| lyricist | Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
clean Fender Stratocaster guitar tone
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intricate fingerstyle guitar solos ⓘ storytelling lyrics about a pub band ⓘ |
| originalDemoRecordedAt | Pathway Studios, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Dire Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Muff Winwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankedOnList |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Vertigo Records
NERFINISHED
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| singleVersionLength | 5:10 ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 6 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Mark Knopfler 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: song "Sultans of Swing" (with Dire Straits) Description of subject: "Sultans of Swing" is a 1978 rock song by Dire Straits, written and sung by Mark Knopfler, renowned for its clean guitar tone, intricate solos, and storytelling lyrics that helped launch the band to international fame.
Referenced by (1)
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