Your Mama Don't Dance
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"Your Mama Don't Dance" is a popular 1972 soft rock song, originally recorded by Loggins and Messina, that became one of their signature hits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Your Mama Don't Dance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9701872 — 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: Your Mama Don't Dance Context triple: [Kenny Loggins, notableWork, Your Mama Don't Dance]
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A.
You Can’t Dance
"You Can’t Dance" is a song featured on the album "Radio."
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B.
I Came to Dance
"I Came to Dance" is a music album best known for its title track of the same name.
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C.
I Can't Dance
"I Can't Dance" is a 1991 pop-rock song by the English band Genesis, known for its minimalist groove, humorous lyrics, and satirical music video.
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D.
It Ain’t What You Dance, It’s the Way You Dance It
"It Ain’t What You Dance, It’s the Way You Dance It" is a new wave/pop single by New Zealand band The Swingers, known for its quirky title and dance-oriented style.
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E.
I Don’t Dance
"I Don’t Dance" is a song featured on the soundtrack of the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical 2," performed by characters Chad and Ryan.
- 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: Your Mama Don't Dance Target entity description: "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a popular 1972 soft rock song, originally recorded by Loggins and Messina, that became one of their signature hits.
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A.
You Can’t Dance
"You Can’t Dance" is a song featured on the album "Radio."
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B.
I Came to Dance
"I Came to Dance" is a music album best known for its title track of the same name.
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C.
I Can't Dance
"I Can't Dance" is a 1991 pop-rock song by the English band Genesis, known for its minimalist groove, humorous lyrics, and satirical music video.
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D.
It Ain’t What You Dance, It’s the Way You Dance It
"It Ain’t What You Dance, It’s the Way You Dance It" is a new wave/pop single by New Zealand band The Swingers, known for its quirky title and dance-oriented style.
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E.
I Don’t Dance
"I Don’t Dance" is a song featured on the soundtrack of the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical 2," performed by characters Chad and Ryan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Australia Kent Music Report top 40
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada RPM Top Singles #4 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Billboard Hot 100 #10 ⓘ US Billboard Hot 100 #4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
rock
ⓘ
soft rock ⓘ |
| hasBSide | Golden Ribbons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric | "Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll" ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | Your Mama Don't Dance (Poison version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | up-tempo ⓘ |
| hasNotableInstrumentation |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ saxophone ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum |
Best of Friends
ⓘ
Loggins and Messina NERFINISHED ⓘ Open Up and Say... Ahh! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Best of Loggins & Messina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Loggins and Messina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 2:47 ⓘ |
| originallyRecordedBy | Loggins and Messina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Loggins and Messina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jim Messina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Columbia Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1972 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1972-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1972
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1989 ⓘ |
| theme |
generational conflict
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rock and roll lifestyle ⓘ |
| writer |
Jim Messina
NERFINISHED
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Kenny Loggins 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: Your Mama Don't Dance Description of subject: "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a popular 1972 soft rock song, originally recorded by Loggins and Messina, that became one of their signature hits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.