Ready to Take a Chance Again
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"Ready to Take a Chance Again" is a 1978 soft rock ballad by Barry Manilow best known as the theme song from the film "Foul Play" and for its success on the adult contemporary charts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ready to Take a Chance Again canonical | 5 |
| Ready to Take a Chance Again (theme from Foul Play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4780104 — 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: Ready to Take a Chance Again Context triple: [Barry Manilow, notableWork, Ready to Take a Chance Again]
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A.
One More Chance
"One More Chance" is a hit hip-hop single by The Notorious B.I.G., known for its smooth R&B-influenced remix and status as one of his most commercially successful and iconic tracks.
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B.
I Take My Chances
"I Take My Chances" is a country song best known from its hit recording by Mary Chapin Carpenter, co-written with Don Schlitz, that reflects on risk, faith, and personal independence.
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C.
Taking Chances
Taking Chances is a pop album by Canadian singer Celine Dion that marked her return to English-language studio recordings in the late 2000s.
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D.
The Second Time Around
The Second Time Around is a popular standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra.
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E.
The Second Time Around
"The Second Time Around" is a 1961 studio album by legendary American R&B and soul singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a blend of blues, jazz, and pop standards.
- 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: Ready to Take a Chance Again Target entity description: "Ready to Take a Chance Again" is a 1978 soft rock ballad by Barry Manilow best known as the theme song from the film "Foul Play" and for its success on the adult contemporary charts.
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A.
One More Chance
"One More Chance" is a hit hip-hop single by The Notorious B.I.G., known for its smooth R&B-influenced remix and status as one of his most commercially successful and iconic tracks.
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B.
I Take My Chances
"I Take My Chances" is a country song best known from its hit recording by Mary Chapin Carpenter, co-written with Don Schlitz, that reflects on risk, faith, and personal independence.
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C.
Taking Chances
Taking Chances is a pop album by Canadian singer Celine Dion that marked her return to English-language studio recordings in the late 2000s.
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D.
The Second Time Around
"The Second Time Around" is a 1961 studio album by legendary American R&B and soul singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a blend of blues, jazz, and pop standards.
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E.
The Second Time Around
The Second Time Around is a popular standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Barry Manilow ⓘ |
| chartSuccessOn |
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart
ⓘ
Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
|
| composer | Charles Fox ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary
ⓘ
soft rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition |
hit on adult contemporary radio
ⓘ
known as theme song from Foul Play ⓘ |
| hasType | ballad ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Norman Gimbel ⓘ |
| medium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | soft rock ballad ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| originallyWrittenFor | Foul Play ⓘ |
| partOf |
Foul Play (soundtrack)
ⓘ
linked to:
Foul Play (film score)
|
| performer | Barry Manilow ⓘ |
| producer |
Barry Manilow
ⓘ
Ron Dante ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Barry Manilow ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Arista Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| themeSongOf | Foul Play ⓘ |
| usedInFilm | Foul Play ⓘ |
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: Ready to Take a Chance Again Description of subject: "Ready to Take a Chance Again" is a 1978 soft rock ballad by Barry Manilow best known as the theme song from the film "Foul Play" and for its success on the adult contemporary charts.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ready to Take a Chance Again