"Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
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"Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" is a 1955 novelty pop song, best known as one of British singer Alma Cogan’s signature hits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo | 2 |
| "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9044154 — 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: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" Context triple: [Alma Cogan, notableWork, "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"]
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A.
Coyote Tango
Coyote Tango is a heavily armed Japanese Mark-1 Jaeger from the Pacific Rim universe, known for its twin artillery cannons and role in early Kaiju defense.
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B.
It Ain’t Necessarily So
"It Ain’t Necessarily So" is a famous song from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, known for its jazzy style and skeptical lyrics about biblical stories.
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C.
Shake Ya Tailfeather
"Shake Ya Tailfeather" is a 2003 hip hop single by Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee that gained widespread popularity as part of the "Bad Boys II" film soundtrack.
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D.
Song to a Seagull
Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
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E.
Safari Song
"Safari Song" is a hard rock track by American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for its retro, Led Zeppelin-inspired sound and powerful vocals.
- 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: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" Target entity description: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" is a 1955 novelty pop song, best known as one of British singer Alma Cogan’s signature hits.
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A.
Coyote Tango
Coyote Tango is a heavily armed Japanese Mark-1 Jaeger from the Pacific Rim universe, known for its twin artillery cannons and role in early Kaiju defense.
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B.
It Ain’t Necessarily So
"It Ain’t Necessarily So" is a famous song from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, known for its jazzy style and skeptical lyrics about biblical stories.
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C.
Shake Ya Tailfeather
"Shake Ya Tailfeather" is a 2003 hip hop single by Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee that gained widespread popularity as part of the "Bad Boys II" film soundtrack.
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D.
Song to a Seagull
Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
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E.
Safari Song
"Safari Song" is a hard rock track by American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for its retro, Led Zeppelin-inspired sound and powerful vocals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Alma Cogan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1950s ⓘ |
| describedAs | novelty pop song ⓘ |
| era | post-war British popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
novelty
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasAudience | mainstream pop audience ⓘ |
| hasForm | single ⓘ |
| hasNotability | British hit song of the 1950s ⓘ |
| hasSignaturePerformer | Alma Cogan ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
comic
ⓘ
light-hearted ⓘ |
| hasTempo | upbeat ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | Alma Cogan’s distinctive cheerful vocal style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Alma Cogan’s signature hits ⓘ |
| partOf | Alma Cogan discography ⓘ |
| performer | Alma Cogan ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Alma Cogan ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | humorous advice about dancing a tango with an Eskimo ⓘ |
| title |
Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo
ⓘ
linked to:
"Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
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| vocalist | Alma Cogan ⓘ |
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: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" Description of subject: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo" is a 1955 novelty pop song, best known as one of British singer Alma Cogan’s signature hits.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
subject linked to:
"Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"
linked to: "Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo"