I’ll Never Smile Again
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"I'll Never Smile Again" is a classic pop and jazz standard first popularized in 1940 by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’ll Never Smile Again canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056680 — 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: I’ll Never Smile Again Context triple: [Tommy Dorsey, notableWork, I’ll Never Smile Again]
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A.
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.
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B.
Nobody's Smiling
"Nobody's Smiling" is a 2014 studio album by American rapper Common that explores themes of violence, struggle, and hope in his hometown of Chicago.
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C.
The Tracks of My Tears
"The Tracks of My Tears" is a classic 1965 soul ballad by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, celebrated for its poignant lyrics and emotive vocal performance.
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D.
In the Still of the Night
"In the Still of the Night" is a popular 1937 American standard written by Cole Porter for the film "Rosalie," later widely recorded by leading vocalists and big bands.
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E.
Willow Weep for Me
"Willow Weep for Me" is a jazz standard ballad, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists for its melancholic melody and expressive lyrics.
- 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: I’ll Never Smile Again Target entity description: "I'll Never Smile Again" is a classic pop and jazz standard first popularized in 1940 by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.
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A.
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.
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B.
Nobody's Smiling
"Nobody's Smiling" is a 2014 studio album by American rapper Common that explores themes of violence, struggle, and hope in his hometown of Chicago.
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C.
The Tracks of My Tears
"The Tracks of My Tears" is a classic 1965 soul ballad by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, celebrated for its poignant lyrics and emotive vocal performance.
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D.
In the Still of the Night
"In the Still of the Night" is a popular 1937 American standard written by Cole Porter for the film "Rosalie," later widely recorded by leading vocalists and big bands.
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E.
Willow Weep for Me
"Willow Weep for Me" is a jazz standard ballad, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists for its melancholic melody and expressive lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers
ⓘ
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra ⓘ |
| composer | Ruth Lowe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1940s ⓘ |
| firstPopularizedBy | Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableArrangementBy | Tommy Dorsey ⓘ |
| hasNotableVocalStyle | crooning ⓘ |
| hasOriginalMedium | 78 rpm record ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
heartbreak
ⓘ
lost love ⓘ |
| includedIn | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
American popular songbook
ⓘ
linked to:
American popular music standards repertoire
jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ruth Lowe ⓘ |
| notableEraOfPopularity | Big Band era ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Frank Sinatra
ⓘ
The Pied Pipers ⓘ Tommy Dorsey ⓘ |
| recordLabelForNotableRecording | RCA Victor ⓘ |
| vocalGroupOnNotableRecording | The Pied Pipers ⓘ |
| vocalistOnNotableRecording | Frank Sinatra ⓘ |
| yearFirstPopularized | 1940 ⓘ |
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: I’ll Never Smile Again Description of subject: "I'll Never Smile Again" is a classic pop and jazz standard first popularized in 1940 by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.