Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
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"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a 1978 new wave song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads that became a UK number-one single and one of Dury's signature hits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10850850 — 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: Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Context triple: [Ian Dury, notableWork, Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick]
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A.
Crazy Rhythm
"Crazy Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard from the 1920s, widely performed and recorded for its lively syncopation and enduring appeal in the Great American Songbook.
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B.
Play That Beat
"Play That Beat" is a track featured on the album "Under Construction," contributing to its overall hip hop sound and style.
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C.
Drawn to the Rhythm
"Drawn to the Rhythm" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, known for its ethereal vocals and introspective lyrics.
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D.
Groove Me
"Groove Me" is a 1970 funk and R&B hit single by King Floyd, known for its infectious groove and success on the soul and pop charts.
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E.
Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" is a 1987 dance-pop song by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine that became one of her signature hits and a staple of Latin-influenced pop music.
- 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: Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Target entity description: "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a 1978 new wave song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads that became a UK number-one single and one of Dury's signature hits.
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A.
Crazy Rhythm
"Crazy Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard from the 1920s, widely performed and recorded for its lively syncopation and enduring appeal in the Great American Songbook.
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B.
Play That Beat
"Play That Beat" is a track featured on the album "Under Construction," contributing to its overall hip hop sound and style.
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C.
Drawn to the Rhythm
"Drawn to the Rhythm" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, known for its ethereal vocals and introspective lyrics.
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D.
Groove Me
"Groove Me" is a 1970 funk and R&B hit single by King Floyd, known for its infectious groove and success on the soul and pop charts.
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E.
Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" is a 1987 dance-pop song by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine that became one of her signature hits and a staple of Latin-influenced pop music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Ian Dury and the Blockheads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Blockheads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chart | UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition | UK Singles Chart number one NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Chaz Jankel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | late 1970s ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ saxophone ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLyricalCharacteristic |
humorous lyrics
ⓘ
multilingual phrases ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
funk-influenced
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rhythm and blues-influenced ⓘ |
| hasRhythmCharacteristic | up-tempo groove ⓘ |
| hasTempo | fast ⓘ |
| hasTimeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| includedIn | compilation albums of Ian Dury and the Blockheads ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label | Stiff Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3 minutes and 45 seconds ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming a UK number-one single
ⓘ
being one of Ian Dury's signature hits ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| partOf | Ian Dury and the Blockheads discography ⓘ |
| peakChartPosition | 1 ⓘ |
| performer | Ian Dury and the Blockheads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laurie Latham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded | 1978 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Chaz Jankel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ian Dury 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: Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Description of subject: "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a 1978 new wave song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads that became a UK number-one single and one of Dury's signature hits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.