Button Up Your Overcoat
E491719
"Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular 1920s American pop standard, best known as a cheerful, jazzy tune associated with singer Ruth Etting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Button Up Your Overcoat canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5078203 — 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: Button Up Your Overcoat Context triple: [Ruth Etting, notableWork, Button Up Your Overcoat]
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A.
The Bespoke Overcoat
The Bespoke Overcoat is a 1955 British short film, adapted from a Nikolai Gogol story and directed by Jack Clayton, noted for its poignant depiction of a poor worker’s struggle for dignity.
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B.
The Checkered Coat
The Checkered Coat is a 1948 American crime drama film featuring actress Wanda Hendrix in a leading role.
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C.
The Jacket
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film blending elements of mystery and time distortion, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley.
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D.
The New York Hat
The New York Hat is a 1912 silent short film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford, often noted as an early landmark of American narrative cinema.
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E.
The Man in the Funny Hat
The Man in the Funny Hat is a nickname for legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi, famed for his leadership, discipline, and multiple NFL championships in the 1960s.
- 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: Button Up Your Overcoat Target entity description: "Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular 1920s American pop standard, best known as a cheerful, jazzy tune associated with singer Ruth Etting.
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A.
The Bespoke Overcoat
The Bespoke Overcoat is a 1955 British short film, adapted from a Nikolai Gogol story and directed by Jack Clayton, noted for its poignant depiction of a poor worker’s struggle for dignity.
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B.
The Checkered Coat
The Checkered Coat is a 1948 American crime drama film featuring actress Wanda Hendrix in a leading role.
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C.
The Jacket
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film blending elements of mystery and time distortion, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley.
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D.
The New York Hat
The New York Hat is a 1912 silent short film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford, often noted as an early landmark of American narrative cinema.
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E.
The Man in the Funny Hat
The Man in the Funny Hat is a nickname for legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi, famed for his leadership, discipline, and multiple NFL championships in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer |
Eddie Cantor
ⓘ
Helen Kane ⓘ Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| composer | Ray Henderson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1920s ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceIn | musical Follow Thru ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
cheerful
ⓘ
jazzy ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
Button up your overcoat, when the wind is free
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Take good care of yourself, you belong to me ⓘ |
| includedInRepertoireOf |
Eddie Cantor
ⓘ
Helen Kane ⓘ Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| isStandardOfEra | Tin Pan Alley era ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
B. G. DeSylva
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linked to:
George Gard DeSylva
Lew Brown ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
advice about keeping warm and healthy
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lighthearted humor ⓘ |
| musicalTheatreSongFrom | Follow Thru ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| partOf | Broadway musical Follow Thru ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| writtenByTeam |
DeSylva, Brown and Henderson
ⓘ
linked to:
De Sylva, Brown and Henderson
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Button Up Your Overcoat Description of subject: "Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular 1920s American pop standard, best known as a cheerful, jazzy tune associated with singer Ruth Etting.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.