"These Foolish Things"
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"These Foolish Things" is a classic jazz standard widely celebrated for its poignant melody and lyrics, and for influential recordings by leading jazz artists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| These Foolish Things | 3 |
| "These Foolish Things" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5192995 — 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: "These Foolish Things" Context triple: [Lester Young, notableWork, "These Foolish Things"]
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A.
Words of a Fool
"Words of a Fool" is a song by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, later re-recorded for his country-tinged album "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1."
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B.
Fool to Cry
"Fool to Cry" is a soulful 1976 ballad by The Rolling Stones, noted for its emotional lyrics, falsetto vocals by Mick Jagger, and prominent use of electric piano and string arrangements.
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C.
Poor Little Fool
"Poor Little Fool" is a 1958 pop song by Ricky Nelson that became a major hit and is historically notable as the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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D.
Find Another Fool
"Find Another Fool" is a rock song by the American band Quarterflash, released in the early 1980s and known for its powerful vocals and saxophone-driven sound.
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E.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
- 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: "These Foolish Things" Target entity description: "These Foolish Things" is a classic jazz standard widely celebrated for its poignant melody and lyrics, and for influential recordings by leading jazz artists.
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A.
Words of a Fool
"Words of a Fool" is a song by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, later re-recorded for his country-tinged album "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1."
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B.
Fool to Cry
"Fool to Cry" is a soulful 1976 ballad by The Rolling Stones, noted for its emotional lyrics, falsetto vocals by Mick Jagger, and prominent use of electric piano and string arrangements.
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C.
Poor Little Fool
"Poor Little Fool" is a 1958 pop song by Ricky Nelson that became a major hit and is historically notable as the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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D.
Find Another Fool
"Find Another Fool" is a rock song by the American band Quarterflash, released in the early 1980s and known for its powerful vocals and saxophone-driven sound.
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E.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jack Strachey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1930s ⓘ |
| firstLine | A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
lyrical ballad style
ⓘ
poignant melody ⓘ romantic lyrics ⓘ |
| hasKeyType | commonly performed in major keys ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric | These foolish things remind me of you ⓘ |
| hasPerformancePractice |
often arranged for big band
ⓘ
often arranged for piano trio ⓘ often features vocal improvisation ⓘ |
| hasSubject | reminders of a past lover ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
lost love
ⓘ
memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| influenced | later jazz ballads ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithEra | pre-World War II popular music ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyIncludedIn | jazz fake books ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPerformedAs | jazz standard ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
Great American Songbook repertoire
ⓘ
jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Eric Maschwitz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holt Marvell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Benny Goodman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billie Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Bryan Ferry NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlie Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Chet Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat King Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceContext |
small jazz ensemble
ⓘ
vocal jazz performance ⓘ |
| typicalTempo | slow ⓘ |
| usesImageryOf |
everyday objects
ⓘ
urban nightlife ⓘ |
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: "These Foolish Things" Description of subject: "These Foolish Things" is a classic jazz standard widely celebrated for its poignant melody and lyrics, and for influential recordings by leading jazz artists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
These Foolish Things
this entity surface form:
These Foolish Things
this entity surface form:
These Foolish Things