"Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons)
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"Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) refers to the use of Bill Haley & His Comets’ classic 1950s rock and roll hit as the original opening theme song for the TV sitcom *Happy Days* in its initial seasons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T691469 — 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: "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) Context triple: [Happy Days, openingTheme, "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons)]
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A.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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B.
Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1986, following the lives of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in New York City.
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C.
Rock Me Baby
"Rock Me Baby" is a classic electric blues song popularized by B.B. King that has become one of his signature tunes and a standard in the blues repertoire.
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D.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
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E.
Do-Re-Mi
Do-Re-Mi is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," known for teaching the musical scale through its lyrics.
- 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: "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) Target entity description: "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) refers to the use of Bill Haley & His Comets’ classic 1950s rock and roll hit as the original opening theme song for the TV sitcom *Happy Days* in its initial seasons.
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A.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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B.
Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1986, following the lives of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in New York City.
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C.
Rock Me Baby
"Rock Me Baby" is a classic electric blues song popularized by B.B. King that has become one of his signature tunes and a standard in the blues repertoire.
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D.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
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E.
Do-Re-Mi
Do-Re-Mi is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," known for teaching the musical scale through its lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Happy Days opening theme
ⓘ
television theme song usage ⓘ |
| associatedWithDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedWithTVDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWork | ABC television network ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Rock Around the Clock
ⓘ
song by Bill Haley & His Comets ⓘ |
| basedOnRecording | 1954 recording of Rock Around the Clock ⓘ |
| composer |
James E. Myers
ⓘ
Max C. Freedman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre | rock and roll ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| linkedToCharacterEra | Richie Cunningham’s teenage years ⓘ |
| mediaType | television audio track ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first opening theme of Happy Days ⓘ |
| openingThemeFor | Happy Days ⓘ |
| partOf |
Happy Days
ⓘ
surface form:
Happy Days early seasons
|
| performer | Bill Haley & His Comets ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Happy Days theme (Sunday, Monday, Happy Days) ⓘ |
| usedAs | original opening theme song ⓘ |
| usedFor | title sequence of Happy Days early seasons ⓘ |
| usedInOpeningCredits | Happy Days ⓘ |
| usedInTVSeries | Happy Days ⓘ |
| usedToEvokeSetting | 1950s Americana ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) Description of subject: "Rock Around the Clock" (early seasons) refers to the use of Bill Haley & His Comets’ classic 1950s rock and roll hit as the original opening theme song for the TV sitcom *Happy Days* in its initial seasons.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.