John DeNicola
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John DeNicola is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the hit songs "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" and "Hungry Eyes" from the film Dirty Dancing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John DeNicola canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786826 — 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: John DeNicola Context triple: [The Time (Dirty Bit), writer, John DeNicola]
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A.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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B.
John DeLuca
John DeLuca is an American film producer and longtime collaborator of director Rob Marshall, known for working on major movie musicals and adaptations.
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C.
Robert DiNozzi
Robert DiNozzi is a film producer best known for his work on the thriller movie "Flightplan."
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D.
Daniel A. D’Aniello
Daniel A. D’Aniello is an American billionaire businessman and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
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E.
John Filippone
John Filippone was the husband of Maureen Reagan, the daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 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: John DeNicola Target entity description: John DeNicola is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the hit songs "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" and "Hungry Eyes" from the film Dirty Dancing.
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A.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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B.
John DeLuca
John DeLuca is an American film producer and longtime collaborator of director Rob Marshall, known for working on major movie musicals and adaptations.
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C.
Robert DiNozzi
Robert DiNozzi is a film producer best known for his work on the thriller movie "Flightplan."
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D.
Daniel A. D’Aniello
Daniel A. D’Aniello is an American billionaire businessman and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
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E.
John Filippone
John Filippone was the husband of Maureen Reagan, the daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ song ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | (I've Had) The Time of My Life ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith |
Donald Markowitz
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Franke Previte ⓘ |
| coWrote |
(I've Had) The Time of My Life
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Hungry Eyes ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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rock music ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing songs for the film Dirty Dancing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Song of the Year ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to film soundtracks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
(I've Had) The Time of My Life
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Hungry Eyes ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dirty Dancing
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surface form:
Dirty Dancing soundtrack
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| workFeaturedIn | Dirty Dancing ⓘ |
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: John DeNicola Description of subject: John DeNicola is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the hit songs "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" and "Hungry Eyes" from the film Dirty Dancing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.