Roller Boogie
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Roller Boogie is a 1979 disco-era roller-skating musical film known for its campy style and cult following.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roller Boogie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10340051 — 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: Roller Boogie Context triple: [Linda Blair, notableWork, Roller Boogie]
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A.
Bumble Boogie
Bumble Boogie is a fast-paced, jazz-inspired animated musical sequence from Disney’s 1948 anthology film "Melody Time," featuring a frantic bee set to a boogie-woogie rendition of "Flight of the Bumblebee."
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B.
The Boogie That Be
"The Boogie That Be" is a high-energy hip hop track by the Black Eyed Peas known for its funky beats and party-oriented vibe.
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C.
Boot Scootin' Boogie
"Boot Scootin' Boogie" is a hit country song that helped popularize line dancing and became one of Brooks & Dunn's signature tunes in the early 1990s.
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D.
Boogie Chillen'
"Boogie Chillen'" is a seminal 1948 blues song by John Lee Hooker that became his first hit and a cornerstone of electric blues and early rock and roll.
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E.
Let’s Roll
"Let’s Roll" is a blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a contemporary, guitar-driven setting.
- 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: Roller Boogie Target entity description: Roller Boogie is a 1979 disco-era roller-skating musical film known for its campy style and cult following.
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A.
Bumble Boogie
Bumble Boogie is a fast-paced, jazz-inspired animated musical sequence from Disney’s 1948 anthology film "Melody Time," featuring a frantic bee set to a boogie-woogie rendition of "Flight of the Bumblebee."
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B.
The Boogie That Be
"The Boogie That Be" is a high-energy hip hop track by the Black Eyed Peas known for its funky beats and party-oriented vibe.
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C.
Boot Scootin' Boogie
"Boot Scootin' Boogie" is a hit country song that helped popularize line dancing and became one of Brooks & Dunn's signature tunes in the early 1990s.
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D.
Boogie Chillen'
"Boogie Chillen'" is a seminal 1948 blues song by John Lee Hooker that became his first hit and a cornerstone of electric blues and early rock and roll.
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E.
Let’s Roll
"Let’s Roll" is a blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a contemporary, guitar-driven setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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roller-skating film ⓘ |
| character |
Bobby James
NERFINISHED
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Terry Barkley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dean Cundey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Esty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Mark L. Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | disco era ⓘ |
| featuresMusicStyle |
disco
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funk ⓘ |
| genre |
camp film
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disco film ⓘ drama ⓘ musical ⓘ romance film ⓘ sports film ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
disco culture
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roller skating ⓘ saving a local roller rink ⓘ teen romance ⓘ |
| homeMedia |
released on Blu-ray
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released on DVD ⓘ released on VHS ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorBackground | Jim Bray was a professional roller skater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketingTarget | teen audience ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campy style
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disco-era roller-skating sequences ⓘ |
| producer | Irwin Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Compass International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-12-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 1970s ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Venice Beach, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Beverly Garland
NERFINISHED
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Jim Bray NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Goddard NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Barry Schneider
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irwin Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Roller Boogie Description of subject: Roller Boogie is a 1979 disco-era roller-skating musical film known for its campy style and cult following.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.