Beat It
E226020
"Beat It" is a 1983 rock-influenced pop song by Michael Jackson, renowned for its anti-violence message, Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitar solo, and its pivotal role in the success of the Thriller album.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beat It canonical | 14 |
| Beat It (Michael Jackson music video) | 1 |
| Beat It (music video) | 1 |
| Beat It / Jam medley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008536 — 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: Beat It Context triple: [Michael Jackson, notableWork, Beat It]
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A.
Billie Jean
Billie Jean is the given name of Billie Jean King, the pioneering American tennis champion and gender equality advocate.
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B.
Take Back
"Take Back" is a song featured on Green Day's 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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C.
Sweet Child o' Mine
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a 1987 power ballad by Guns N' Roses, widely recognized as one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.
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D.
Stayin' Alive
"Stayin' Alive" is a 1977 disco song by the Bee Gees, best known for its iconic falsetto vocals and association with the film Saturday Night Fever.
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E.
Send It Up
"Send It Up" is a hard-edged, industrial-rap track by Kanye West from his experimental 2013 album *Yeezus*, known for its abrasive production and club-oriented energy.
- 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: Beat It Target entity description: "Beat It" is a 1983 rock-influenced pop song by Michael Jackson, renowned for its anti-violence message, Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitar solo, and its pivotal role in the success of the Thriller album.
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A.
Billie Jean
Billie Jean is the given name of Billie Jean King, the pioneering American tennis champion and gender equality advocate.
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B.
Take Back
"Take Back" is a song featured on Green Day's 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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C.
Sweet Child o' Mine
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a 1987 power ballad by Guns N' Roses, widely recognized as one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.
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D.
Stayin' Alive
"Stayin' Alive" is a 1977 disco song by the Bee Gees, best known for its iconic falsetto vocals and association with the film Saturday Night Fever.
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E.
Send It Up
"Send It Up" is a hard-edged, industrial-rap track by Kanye West from his experimental 2013 album *Yeezus*, known for its abrasive production and club-oriented energy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Beat It Description of subject: "Beat It" is a 1983 rock-influenced pop song by Michael Jackson, renowned for its anti-violence message, Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitar solo, and its pivotal role in the success of the Thriller album.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thriller (song)
this entity surface form:
Beat It / Jam medley
this entity surface form:
Beat It (music video)
this entity surface form:
Beat It (Michael Jackson music video)