C+C Music Factory
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C+C Music Factory was a popular early-1990s American dance and hip hop music group best known for chart-topping club hits like "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C+C Music Factory canonical | 8 |
| C+C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmm... | 1 |
| produced multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits with C+C Music Factory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5535515 — 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: C+C Music Factory Context triple: [David Cole, memberOf, C+C Music Factory]
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A.
Miami Sound Machine
Miami Sound Machine is a pioneering Latin pop and dance band fronted by Gloria Estefan that achieved international fame in the 1980s with hits blending Latin rhythms and mainstream pop.
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B.
Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe is an American R&B/hip-hop group formed by New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, best known for their influential 1990 hit "Poison" and their role in pioneering the new jack swing sound.
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C.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a pioneering American female hip hop trio known for their groundbreaking role in bringing feminist themes and mainstream success to rap music in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
The Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group best known for their 1979 single "Rapper's Delight," one of the first rap songs to gain widespread mainstream popularity.
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E.
The Spinners
The Spinners are an American R&B vocal group best known for their smooth Philadelphia soul sound and a string of 1970s hits like "I'll Be Around" and "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love."
- 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: C+C Music Factory Target entity description: C+C Music Factory was a popular early-1990s American dance and hip hop music group best known for chart-topping club hits like "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."
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A.
Miami Sound Machine
Miami Sound Machine is a pioneering Latin pop and dance band fronted by Gloria Estefan that achieved international fame in the 1980s with hits blending Latin rhythms and mainstream pop.
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B.
Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe is an American R&B/hip-hop group formed by New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, best known for their influential 1990 hit "Poison" and their role in pioneering the new jack swing sound.
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C.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a pioneering American female hip hop trio known for their groundbreaking role in bringing feminist themes and mainstream success to rap music in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
The Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group best known for their 1979 single "Rapper's Delight," one of the first rap songs to gain widespread mainstream popularity.
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E.
The Spinners
The Spinners are an American R&B vocal group best known for their smooth Philadelphia soul sound and a string of 1970s hits like "I'll Be Around" and "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dance music group
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music group ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1996 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1989 ⓘ |
| album |
Anything Goes!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
C+C Music Factory (1995 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gonna Make You Sweat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Clivillés + Cole
NERFINISHED
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Freedom Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Wash NERFINISHED ⓘ Zelma Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | American Music Award for Favorite Dance New Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early-1990s club hits ⓘ |
| chartAchievement | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Gonna Make You Sweat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| founder |
David Cole
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Clivillés NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dance
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hip hop ⓘ house ⓘ new jack swing ⓘ pop rap ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chronicle
NERFINISHED
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David Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Freedom Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Wash NERFINISHED ⓘ Rapper Q-Unique NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Clivillés NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinidad James "Trinidad" NERFINISHED ⓘ Zelma Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involved in lip-syncing controversy regarding vocals by Martha Wash on early singles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Do You Wanna Get Funky
NERFINISHED
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Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) NERFINISHED ⓘ Here We Go (Let’s Rock & Roll) NERFINISHED ⓘ Just a Touch of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep It Comin’ (Dance Till You Can’t Dance No More) NERFINISHED ⓘ Take a Toke NERFINISHED ⓘ Things That Make You Go Hmmm... NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularity | early 1990s ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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Sony Music Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformed | 2010 ⓘ |
| songFeaturesRapper | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) – Freedom Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songFeaturesVocalist | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) – Martha Wash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: C+C Music Factory Description of subject: C+C Music Factory was a popular early-1990s American dance and hip hop music group best known for chart-topping club hits like "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
C+C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
this entity surface form:
produced multiple Billboard Hot 100 hits with C+C Music Factory