Save the Last Dance for Me
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"Save the Last Dance for Me" is a classic early-1960s pop and R&B song, popularized by Ben E. King as lead singer of The Drifters, known for its romantic lyrics and memorable melody.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Save the Last Dance for Me canonical | 9 |
| One Last Kiss / Save the Last Dance for Me | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T623148 — 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: Save the Last Dance for Me Context triple: [Ben E. King, notableWork, Save the Last Dance for Me]
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A.
Take a Chance on Me
"Take a Chance on Me" is a hit pop song by the Swedish group ABBA, known for its catchy harmonies and prominent use in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!".
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B.
A Song for You
"A Song for You" is a soulful ballad, originally written and recorded by Leon Russell, that has become a widely covered standard in pop and R&B music.
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C.
The Way We Were
"The Way We Were" is a 1973 romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, renowned for its bittersweet love story and iconic title song.
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D.
All Mine
"All Mine" is a minimalist, sexually charged R&B track by Kanye West (Ye) from his 2018 album *Ye*, known for its sparse production and catchy vocal hook.
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E.
Lay All Your Love on Me
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is a synth-driven disco-pop song by ABBA, known for its dramatic vocals and enduring popularity in both music charts and musical theatre adaptations.
- 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: Save the Last Dance for Me Target entity description: "Save the Last Dance for Me" is a classic early-1960s pop and R&B song, popularized by Ben E. King as lead singer of The Drifters, known for its romantic lyrics and memorable melody.
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A.
Take a Chance on Me
"Take a Chance on Me" is a hit pop song by the Swedish group ABBA, known for its catchy harmonies and prominent use in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!".
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B.
A Song for You
"A Song for You" is a soulful ballad, originally written and recorded by Leon Russell, that has become a widely covered standard in pop and R&B music.
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C.
The Way We Were
"The Way We Were" is a 1973 romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, renowned for its bittersweet love story and iconic title song.
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D.
All Mine
"All Mine" is a minimalist, sexually charged R&B track by Kanye West (Ye) from his 2018 album *Ye*, known for its sparse production and catchy vocal hook.
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E.
Lay All Your Love on Me
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is a synth-driven disco-pop song by ABBA, known for its dramatic vocals and enduring popularity in both music charts and musical theatre adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer |
Doc Pomus
ⓘ
Mort Shuman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| features |
The Drifters
ⓘ
surface form:
backing vocals by The Drifters
lead tenor vocal by Ben E. King ⓘ |
| follows | This Magic Moment ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | multiple artists ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
R&B love songs
ⓘ
later pop ballads ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | song ⓘ |
| hasStyle | vocal group harmony ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dance
ⓘ
devotion ⓘ romantic love ⓘ |
| isClassicOf |
early 1960s R&B
ⓘ
early 1960s pop ⓘ |
| isInCatalogOf | Atlantic Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Ben E. King ⓘ |
| lyricist | Doc Pomus ⓘ |
| notableFor |
memorable melody
ⓘ
romantic lyrics ⓘ |
| originalArtist | The Drifters ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl single ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Drifters
ⓘ
surface form:
The Drifters discography
|
| performer | The Drifters ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Atlantic Records ⓘ |
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: Save the Last Dance for Me Description of subject: "Save the Last Dance for Me" is a classic early-1960s pop and R&B song, popularized by Ben E. King as lead singer of The Drifters, known for its romantic lyrics and memorable melody.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
One Last Kiss / Save the Last Dance for Me