“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)”
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“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” is a 1993 jazz-rap single by Us3 that famously samples Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island” and became a major crossover hit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11853151 — 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: “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” Context triple: [Cantaloupe Island, hasCoverVersion, “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)”]
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A.
Plon-Plon
Plon-Plon was the popular nickname of Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, a 19th-century French imperial prince and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III.
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B.
Kiss That Frog
"Kiss That Frog" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel, featured on his 1992 album *Us* and known for its playful, funk-influenced style and imaginative lyrics.
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C.
Hellzapoppin'
Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 American musical comedy film, based on the hit Broadway revue, known for its anarchic humor, breaking of the fourth wall, and influential swing-era dance sequences.
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D.
Frog Music
Frog Music is a historical crime novel by Emma Donoghue, set in 1870s San Francisco and inspired by a real unsolved murder.
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E.
Flip, Flop and Fly
"Flip, Flop and Fly" is a classic 1955 rhythm and blues song by Big Joe Turner that became one of his signature jump-blues hits and a rock and roll standard.
- 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: “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” Target entity description: “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” is a 1993 jazz-rap single by Us3 that famously samples Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island” and became a major crossover hit.
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A.
Plon-Plon
Plon-Plon was the popular nickname of Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, a 19th-century French imperial prince and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III.
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B.
Kiss That Frog
"Kiss That Frog" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel, featured on his 1992 album *Us* and known for its playful, funk-influenced style and imaginative lyrics.
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C.
Hellzapoppin'
Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 American musical comedy film, based on the hit Broadway revue, known for its anarchic humor, breaking of the fourth wall, and influential swing-era dance sequences.
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D.
Frog Music
Frog Music is a historical crime novel by Emma Donoghue, set in 1870s San Francisco and inspired by a real unsolved murder.
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E.
Flip, Flop and Fly
"Flip, Flop and Fly" is a classic 1955 rhythm and blues song by Big Joe Turner that became one of his signature jump-blues hits and a rock and roll standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Hand on the Torch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Us3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | 1990s jazz-rap movement ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cantaloupe Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedOn |
UK Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs NERFINISHED ⓘ US Hot Rap Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | major crossover hit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| features |
Gerard Presencer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rahsaan Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
acid jazz
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ jazz rap ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle | Cantaloop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBpm | approximately 92 BPM ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
12-inch vinyl
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| hasKey | F minor ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | Flip Fantasia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesSpokenWordBy | Geoff Wilkinson GENERATED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3 minutes 40 seconds ⓘ |
| notableFor |
heavy sampling of Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island
ⓘ
popularizing jazz rap in the mainstream ⓘ |
| partOf | Hand on the Torch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPositionOnBillboardHot100 | top 10 ⓘ |
| performer | Us3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Geoff Wilkinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mel Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
ⓘ
Capitol Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single from Hand on the Torch ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| sampledArtist | Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| samples | Cantaloupe Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesLabelCatalog | Blue Note jazz catalog sampling ⓘ |
| writer |
Geoff Wilkinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Simpson 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: “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” Description of subject: “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” is a 1993 jazz-rap single by Us3 that famously samples Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island” and became a major crossover hit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.