Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
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"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" is a 1972 rock song by The Hollies, known for its swamp-rock style, driving guitar riff, and storytelling lyrics about a Prohibition-era raid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9374952 — 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: Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress Context triple: [The Hollies, notableWork, Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress]
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A.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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B.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a country music album by American singer LeAnn Rimes, noted for its blend of contemporary and traditional country styles.
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C.
Such a Woman
"Such a Woman" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1992 album "Harvest Moon."
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D.
Long Haired Lady
"Long Haired Lady" is a melodic pop-rock song by Paul McCartney from his 1971 album *Ram*, noted for its lush harmonies and multi-part structure.
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E.
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
"If You Wear That Velvet Dress" is a moody, atmospheric pop ballad by U2 from their 1997 album *Pop*, noted for its sultry lyrics and subdued, late-night feel.
- 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: Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress Target entity description: "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" is a 1972 rock song by The Hollies, known for its swamp-rock style, driving guitar riff, and storytelling lyrics about a Prohibition-era raid.
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A.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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B.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a country music album by American singer LeAnn Rimes, noted for its blend of contemporary and traditional country styles.
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C.
Such a Woman
"Such a Woman" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1992 album "Harvest Moon."
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D.
Long Haired Lady
"Long Haired Lady" is a melodic pop-rock song by Paul McCartney from his 1971 album *Ram*, noted for its lush harmonies and multi-part structure.
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E.
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
"If You Wear That Velvet Dress" is a moody, atmospheric pop ballad by U2 from their 1997 album *Pop*, noted for its sultry lyrics and subdued, late-night feel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | The Hollies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 32 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 2 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
rock
ⓘ
swamp rock ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle | Long Cool Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBPM | ~132 ⓘ |
| hasCertification | RIAA gold single in the United States ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
classic rock radio staple
ⓘ
one of The Hollies’ best-known US hits ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 1970s rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ rhythm guitar ⓘ |
| hasKey | G major ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 3:00 ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
driving guitar riff
ⓘ
swamp-rock style ⓘ |
| hasNotableComparison | often compared to Creedence Clearwater Revival style ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
"Just a 5'9" beautiful tall"
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"Long cool woman in a black dress" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Saturday night I was downtown, working for the FBI" ⓘ |
| hasSongStructure | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Distant Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | The Hollies discography ⓘ |
| label |
Epic Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Parlophone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Allan Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
FBI raid on a speakeasy
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Prohibition-era raid ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| performer | The Hollies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Ron Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1971 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1972 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| writer |
Allan Clarke
NERFINISHED
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Roger Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Greenaway 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: Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress Description of subject: "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" is a 1972 rock song by The Hollies, known for its swamp-rock style, driving guitar riff, and storytelling lyrics about a Prohibition-era raid.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.