They Can't Take That Away from Me

E224416

jazz standard popular song song

"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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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
They Can’t Take That Away from Me	6
They Can't Take That Away from Me canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007630 — 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: They Can't Take That Away from Me
Context triple: [Shall We Dance, featuresSong, They Can't Take That Away from Me]

A. 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.
B. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
"Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a power ballad best known as one of Elton John’s signature songs, later revived in a hit live duet with George Michael.
C. What'll I Do
"What'll I Do" is a classic popular song from the 1920s, known for its poignant lyrics about lost love and its enduring status as one of Irving Berlin's most beloved standards.
D. I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself
"I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself" is a classic pop song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David that has been widely covered by numerous artists since the 1960s.
E. I, Too
"I, Too" is a short, powerful poem by Langston Hughes that asserts the dignity and eventual recognition of African Americans within the American identity.
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: They Can't Take That Away from Me
Target entity description: "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.

A. 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.
B. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
"Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a power ballad best known as one of Elton John’s signature songs, later revived in a hit live duet with George Michael.
C. What'll I Do
"What'll I Do" is a classic popular song from the 1920s, known for its poignant lyrics about lost love and its enduring status as one of Irving Berlin's most beloved standards.
D. I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself
"I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself" is a classic pop song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David that has been widely covered by numerous artists since the 1960s.
E. I, Too
"I, Too" is a short, powerful poem by Langston Hughes that asserts the dignity and eventual recognition of African Americans within the American identity.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	jazz standard ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ
associatedWithSongwriters	Ira Gershwin ⓘ surface form: Gershwin brothers
composer	George Gershwin ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
coveredBy	numerous jazz artists ⓘ
era	1930s American popular music ⓘ
filmReleaseYearOfIntroduction	1937 ⓘ
firstPerformer	Fred Astaire ⓘ
form	32-bar song form ⓘ
genre	jazz ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ
hasCulturalStatus	American standard ⓘ jazz standard ⓘ
hasLyricsTheme	enduring love ⓘ romantic remembrance ⓘ
hasNotableRecording	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong version ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ surface form: Frank Sinatra version Fred Astaire original film version ⓘ
includedInRepertoireOf	jazz instrumentalists ⓘ jazz vocalists ⓘ
introducedBy	Fred Astaire ⓘ
introducedInFilm	Shall We Dance ⓘ
isFrequentlyPerformedAs	jazz ballad ⓘ
isStandardIn	Great American Songbook ⓘ
key	B-flat major ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
lyricist	Ira Gershwin ⓘ
lyricsFeature	list of remembered details about a lover ⓘ
lyricsRefrain	"They can't take that away from me" ⓘ
musicBy	George Gershwin ⓘ
notablePerformer	Billie Holiday ⓘ Diana Krall ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Fred Astaire ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ
performanceContext	cabaret shows ⓘ concert halls ⓘ jazz clubs ⓘ
publicationYear	1937 ⓘ
structure	AABA ⓘ
tempo	medium-slow ⓘ
usedIn	film soundtracks ⓘ
wordsBy	Ira Gershwin ⓘ

How these facts were elicited