Moonlight Shadow
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"Moonlight Shadow" is a 1983 pop-rock song by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, featuring vocals by Maggie Reilly and known for its melodic guitar work and haunting, narrative lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moonlight Shadow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7504331 — 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: Moonlight Shadow Context triple: [Mike Oldfield, notableWork, Moonlight Shadow]
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A.
Moonshadow
"Moonshadow" is a gentle, folk-inspired song by Cat Stevens that reflects on resilience and optimism in the face of life's hardships.
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B.
The Pale Moonlight
"The Pale Moonlight" is a track from Kid Cudi’s album *Man on the Moon III: The Chosen*, continuing his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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C.
Shadows
Shadows is a groundbreaking 1959 American independent drama film by John Cassavetes, celebrated for its improvisational style and candid exploration of race and relationships in New York City.
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D.
The Shadow Knows
"The Shadow Knows" is a 1960 novelty R&B song by The Coasters that plays off the famous catchphrase from the old-time radio drama "The Shadow."
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E.
Still of the Night
"Still of the Night" is a 1987 hard rock song by the British band Whitesnake, known for its powerful vocals, heavy riffs, and prominent place in the glam metal era.
- 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: Moonlight Shadow Target entity description: "Moonlight Shadow" is a 1983 pop-rock song by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, featuring vocals by Maggie Reilly and known for its melodic guitar work and haunting, narrative lyrics.
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A.
Moonshadow
"Moonshadow" is a gentle, folk-inspired song by Cat Stevens that reflects on resilience and optimism in the face of life's hardships.
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B.
The Pale Moonlight
"The Pale Moonlight" is a track from Kid Cudi’s album *Man on the Moon III: The Chosen*, continuing his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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C.
Shadows
Shadows is a groundbreaking 1959 American independent drama film by John Cassavetes, celebrated for its improvisational style and candid exploration of race and relationships in New York City.
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D.
The Shadow Knows
"The Shadow Knows" is a 1960 novelty R&B song by The Coasters that plays off the famous catchphrase from the old-time radio drama "The Shadow."
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E.
Still of the Night
"Still of the Night" is a 1987 hard rock song by the British band Whitesnake, known for its powerful vocals, heavy riffs, and prominent place in the glam metal era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Rite of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustria | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionFrance | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionGermany | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIreland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNetherlands | 3 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNorway | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSwitzerland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 4 ⓘ |
| composer | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | Maggie Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersions | true ⓘ |
| hasExtendedVersion | true ⓘ |
| hasMelodicGuitarWork | true ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeLyrics | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
ⓘ
longing ⓘ loss ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| labelCatalogNumberUK7inch | Virgin VS 586 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalsBy | Maggie Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lengthAlbumVersion | 3:37 ⓘ |
| lengthSingleVersion | 3:37 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoPerformer |
Maggie Reilly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Crises NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Mike Oldfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-05-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| tempo | medium ⓘ |
| vocalist | Maggie Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenForAlbum | Crises 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: Moonlight Shadow Description of subject: "Moonlight Shadow" is a 1983 pop-rock song by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, featuring vocals by Maggie Reilly and known for its melodic guitar work and haunting, narrative lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.