Nice Work If You Can Get It
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"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular 1937 jazz standard by George and Ira Gershwin that has become a widely recorded and performed piece in the Great American Songbook.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nice Work If You Can Get It canonical | 11 |
| Nice Work (If You Can Get It) (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007925 — 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: Nice Work If You Can Get It Context triple: [A Damsel in Distress, featuresSong, Nice Work If You Can Get It]
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A.
Work on It
"Work on It" is a musical track, likely a song title, referenced as part of a larger recording or album.
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B.
Leave It
"Leave It" is a 1983 progressive pop/rock song by the English band Yes, known for its intricate vocal arrangements and multiple remixed versions.
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C.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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D.
It Will All Work Out
"It Will All Work Out" is a song by the American indie rock band The Mutable Set.
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E.
Work It
"Work It" is a 2002 hip hop single by Missy Elliott known for its innovative production, reversed vocals, and iconic status in early-2000s pop culture.
- 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: Nice Work If You Can Get It Target entity description: "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular 1937 jazz standard by George and Ira Gershwin that has become a widely recorded and performed piece in the Great American Songbook.
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A.
Work on It
"Work on It" is a musical track, likely a song title, referenced as part of a larger recording or album.
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B.
Leave It
"Leave It" is a 1983 progressive pop/rock song by the English band Yes, known for its intricate vocal arrangements and multiple remixed versions.
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C.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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D.
It Will All Work Out
"It Will All Work Out" is a song by the American indie rock band The Mutable Set.
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E.
Work It
"Work It" is a 2002 hip hop single by Missy Elliott known for its innovative production, reversed vocals, and iconic status in early-2000s pop culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Anita O'Day
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Art Tatum ⓘ Bill Charlap ⓘ Bill Evans ⓘ Billie Holiday ⓘ Bing Crosby ⓘ Carmen McRae ⓘ Charlie Parker ⓘ Chet Baker ⓘ Count Basie ⓘ Diana Krall ⓘ Dinah Washington ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Fred Astaire ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. ⓘ Joe Pass ⓘ Judy Garland ⓘ Keith Jarrett ⓘ Lena Horne ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Michael Feinstein ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ Oscar Peterson ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Red Garland ⓘ Sarah Vaughan ⓘ Shirley Horn ⓘ Stan Getz ⓘ Sting ⓘ Tal Farlow ⓘ Thelonious Monk ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ Wynton Marsalis ⓘ |
| hasType |
show tune
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vocal music ⓘ |
| isIn | public domain in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| partOf | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
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: Nice Work If You Can Get It Description of subject: "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular 1937 jazz standard by George and Ira Gershwin that has become a widely recorded and performed piece in the Great American Songbook.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
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includesWork
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
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this entity surface form:
Nice Work (If You Can Get It) (novel)