Ride a White Swan
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"Ride a White Swan" is a 1970 glam rock single by T. Rex that became the band's breakthrough hit and a key influence on the early glam rock movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ride a White Swan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027859 — 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: Ride a White Swan Context triple: [T. Rex, notableWork, Ride a White Swan]
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A.
White Swan
The "White Swan" is the elegant, white Baroque-style Kaunas Town Hall in Lithuania, renowned for its slender tower and historic role as a civic landmark.
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B.
the White Swan
The White Swan is the enchanted princess alter ego of Odette in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "Swan Lake," symbolizing purity, grace, and tragic romance.
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C.
Song of White
"Song of White" is a track from the progressive rock album "Antarctica" by the band Antarctica.
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D.
White Bird
White Bird was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key role alongside Chief Joseph in resisting U.S. forces during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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E.
White Rider
White Rider is the later, more powerful incarnation of Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, symbolizing his return and elevated status after his battle with the Balrog.
- 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: Ride a White Swan Target entity description: "Ride a White Swan" is a 1970 glam rock single by T. Rex that became the band's breakthrough hit and a key influence on the early glam rock movement.
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A.
White Swan
The "White Swan" is the elegant, white Baroque-style Kaunas Town Hall in Lithuania, renowned for its slender tower and historic role as a civic landmark.
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B.
the White Swan
The White Swan is the enchanted princess alter ego of Odette in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "Swan Lake," symbolizing purity, grace, and tragic romance.
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C.
Song of White
"Song of White" is a track from the progressive rock album "Antarctica" by the band Antarctica.
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D.
White Bird
White Bird was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key role alongside Chief Joseph in resisting U.S. forces during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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E.
White Rider
White Rider is the later, more powerful incarnation of Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, symbolizing his return and elevated status after his battle with the Balrog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breakthroughWorkFor | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPeakCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 2 ⓘ |
| composer | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creditedTo | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Hot Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Is It Love? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Ride a White Swan single sleeve ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
electric guitar
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handclaps ⓘ string arrangement ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | boogie-based rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
Ride it on out like a bird in the sky
ⓘ
Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days ⓘ |
| influenced | glam rock ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 2:13 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being T. Rex breakthrough hit
ⓘ
influencing early glam rock aesthetics ⓘ |
| partOf | T. Rex discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousArtistNameContext | Tyrannosaurus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1970 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Fly Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1970-10-23 ⓘ |
| significantIn | early glam rock movement ⓘ |
| tempo | medium tempo ⓘ |
| writer | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ride a White Swan Description of subject: "Ride a White Swan" is a 1970 glam rock single by T. Rex that became the band's breakthrough hit and a key influence on the early glam rock movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.