Swing Kids
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Swing Kids is a 1993 drama film about German teenagers in 1930s Hamburg who rebel against the Nazi regime through their love of American swing music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swing Kids canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10974446 — 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: Swing Kids Context triple: [Robert Sean Leonard, notableWork, Swing Kids]
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A.
King Swing
King Swing is a notable feature of The Nose climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite, known for its dramatic, pendulum-style traverse across the rock face.
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B.
The Swinging Blue Jeans
The Swinging Blue Jeans are a British Merseybeat band best known for their 1960s hits like "Hippy Hippy Shake."
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C.
Swingin’ New Big Band
Swingin’ New Big Band is a high-energy big band jazz album by legendary drummer Buddy Rich, showcasing his powerful drumming and modern big band arrangements.
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D.
Swing Mob
Swing Mob was a 1990s R&B/hip-hop collective and production crew founded by DeVante Swing that launched the careers of artists like Missy Elliott, Timbaland, and Ginuwine.
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E.
The Jitterbug
The Jitterbug is a song written for but ultimately cut from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," remembered today as a notable work by lyricist E. Y. Harburg.
- 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: Swing Kids Target entity description: Swing Kids is a 1993 drama film about German teenagers in 1930s Hamburg who rebel against the Nazi regime through their love of American swing music.
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A.
King Swing
King Swing is a notable feature of The Nose climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite, known for its dramatic, pendulum-style traverse across the rock face.
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B.
The Swinging Blue Jeans
The Swinging Blue Jeans are a British Merseybeat band best known for their 1960s hits like "Hippy Hippy Shake."
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C.
Swingin’ New Big Band
Swingin’ New Big Band is a high-energy big band jazz album by legendary drummer Buddy Rich, showcasing his powerful drumming and modern big band arrangements.
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D.
Swing Mob
Swing Mob was a 1990s R&B/hip-hop collective and production crew founded by DeVante Swing that launched the careers of artists like Missy Elliott, Timbaland, and Ginuwine.
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E.
The Jitterbug
The Jitterbug is a song written for but ultimately cut from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," remembered today as a notable work by lyricist E. Y. Harburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical events ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Arvid
NERFINISHED
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Herr Knopp NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Berger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Jerzy Zieliński NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | James Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Gestapo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hitler Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Thomas Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Michael Jablow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Barbara Hershey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christian Bale NERFINISHED ⓘ David Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Whaley NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Stemberger NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Branagh NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Sean Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ Tushka Bergen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicGenre | swing ⓘ |
| hasTagline | In a world on the brink of war, they found a reason to live. ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
love of American swing music
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resistance to Nazism ⓘ youth rebellion ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
friendship under totalitarianism
ⓘ
moral choices under oppression ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Swingjugend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Doug Claybourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hollywood Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| runtime | 112 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jonathan Marc Feldman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod |
1930s
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Nazi era ⓘ |
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: Swing Kids Description of subject: Swing Kids is a 1993 drama film about German teenagers in 1930s Hamburg who rebel against the Nazi regime through their love of American swing music.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.