Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)
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"Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" is a 1977 rock song by Irish band Thin Lizzy, known for its catchy melody, saxophone riff, and storytelling lyrics about youthful nightlife.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378989 — 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: Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight) Context triple: [Thin Lizzy, notableWork, Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)]
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A.
Dance with Me Tonight
"Dance with Me Tonight" is a retro-inspired pop song by English singer Olly Murs, known for its upbeat, soulful style and catchy, sing-along chorus.
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B.
Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
"Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones, featured on their 1984 album "Too Tough to Die."
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C.
How High the Moon
"How High the Moon" is a popular jazz standard from the 1940s that became a cornerstone of the bebop repertoire and a frequent basis for improvisation and contrafacts.
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D.
Swinging on a Star
"Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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E.
Miss Movin' On
"Miss Movin' On" is the debut single by American girl group Fifth Harmony, known as an empowering pop anthem about moving on after heartbreak.
- 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: Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight) Target entity description: "Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" is a 1977 rock song by Irish band Thin Lizzy, known for its catchy melody, saxophone riff, and storytelling lyrics about youthful nightlife.
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A.
Dance with Me Tonight
"Dance with Me Tonight" is a retro-inspired pop song by English singer Olly Murs, known for its upbeat, soulful style and catchy, sing-along chorus.
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B.
Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
"Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones, featured on their 1984 album "Too Tough to Die."
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C.
How High the Moon
"How High the Moon" is a popular jazz standard from the 1940s that became a cornerstone of the bebop repertoire and a frequent basis for improvisation and contrafacts.
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D.
Swinging on a Star
"Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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E.
Miss Movin' On
"Miss Movin' On" is the debut single by American girl group Fifth Harmony, known as an empowering pop anthem about moving on after heartbreak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Bad Reputation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Thin Lizzy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Phil Lynott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1970s ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ saxophone ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasChorus | yes ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| hasPart | saxophone riff ⓘ |
| hasQuality | catchy melody ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVerse | yes ⓘ |
| isDifferentFrom | Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:26 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Phil Lynott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricStyle | storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
romance
ⓘ
youthful nightlife ⓘ |
| notableFor |
catchy melody
ⓘ
saxophone riff ⓘ storytelling lyrics about nightlife ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedAs | single ⓘ |
| partOf | Bad Reputation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Brian Downey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brian Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Lynott NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Gorham NERFINISHED ⓘ Thin Lizzy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Thin Lizzy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1976–1977 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Vertigo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-07-29 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Dancing in the Moonlight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | medium tempo ⓘ |
| writer | Phil Lynott 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: Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight) Description of subject: "Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" is a 1977 rock song by Irish band Thin Lizzy, known for its catchy melody, saxophone riff, and storytelling lyrics about youthful nightlife.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.