You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
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"You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" is a short story by Philip Roth that appears in his collection *Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories*.
All labels observed (1)
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| You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14891973 — 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: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings Context triple: [Goodbye, Columbus, containsWork, You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings]
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A.
Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
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B.
They Can't Take That Away from Me
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a classic American popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, famously introduced by Fred Astaire and widely regarded as a jazz standard.
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C.
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular 1932 American standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop vocalists.
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D.
God Bless the Child
"God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
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E.
My Man’s Gone Now
"My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
- 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: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings Target entity description: "You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" is a short story by Philip Roth that appears in his collection *Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories*.
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A.
Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
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B.
They Can't Take That Away from Me
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a classic American popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, famously introduced by Fred Astaire and widely regarded as a jazz standard.
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C.
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular 1932 American standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop vocalists.
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D.
God Bless the Child
"God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
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E.
My Man’s Gone Now
"My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.