Dexter (main title theme)
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"Dexter (main title theme)" is the dark, suspenseful opening music for the television series "Dexter," composed by Rolfe Kent and known for its playful yet ominous tone that mirrors the show's blend of everyday routine and hidden violence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dexter (main title theme) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10282943 — 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.
Target entity: Dexter (main title theme) Context triple: [Rolfe Kent, notableWork, Dexter (main title theme)]
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Target entity: Dexter (main title theme) Target entity description: "Dexter (main title theme)" is the dark, suspenseful opening music for the television series "Dexter," composed by Rolfe Kent and known for its playful yet ominous tone that mirrors the show's blend of everyday routine and hidden violence.
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A.
Fade to Black
"Fade to Black" is a seminal 1984 Metallica power ballad that blends acoustic passages with heavy riffs and explores themes of depression and suicidal despair.
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B.
Red Main
The Red Main is a river in northern Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the city of Bayreuth and forms one of the two headstreams of the Main River.
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C.
Stay Gone
"Stay Gone" is a country song recorded by Jimmy Wayne, known for its emotional lyrics about moving on after a breakup.
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D.
Strangeways, Here We Come
"Strangeways, Here We Come" is the fourth and final studio album by English rock band The Smiths, noted for its darker tone, richer production, and status as a poignant endpoint to the group's influential career.
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E.
When the Killing's Done
"When the Killing's Done" is a novel by T.C. Boyle that explores environmentalism, animal rights, and human conflict through a battle over wildlife management in California’s Channel Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
instrumental composition
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television theme song ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Dexter Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
crime drama
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dexter book series by Jeff Lindsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Rolfe Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creditedComposer | Rolfe Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Dexter season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark ambient
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suspense music ⓘ television score ⓘ |
| hasComposerNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasComposerResidenceAtTime | United States GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
digital audio
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soundtrack album ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dexter (main title theme) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNonDiegeticMusicFor | Dexter (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfSeries | English ⓘ |
| linkedToTheme |
duality of normalcy and violence
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hidden identity ⓘ serial killer protagonist ⓘ |
| musicStyleElement |
minor-key harmonies
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syncopated rhythms ⓘ unusual instrumentation ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrasts everyday routine with hidden violence
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sets dark and suspenseful tone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive, quirky yet sinister sound
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strong association with Dexter brand ⓘ |
| openingSequenceDepicts | Dexter Morgan’s morning routine ⓘ |
| openingSequenceMotif | mundane actions framed as violent imagery ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Showtime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Dexter (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfSeries | Showtime Networks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Dexter original soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudienceContext | adult cable television viewers ⓘ |
| tonalDescription |
dark
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ominous ⓘ playful ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| usedAs | opening theme ⓘ |
| usedIn | title sequence of Dexter ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Dexter (main title theme) Description of subject: "Dexter (main title theme)" is the dark, suspenseful opening music for the television series "Dexter," composed by Rolfe Kent and known for its playful yet ominous tone that mirrors the show's blend of everyday routine and hidden violence.
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