Goodbye
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"Goodbye" is a jazz standard composed by Gordon Jenkins that became widely known as the Benny Goodman Orchestra’s closing theme song.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5787493 — 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: Goodbye Context triple: [Benny Goodman Orchestra, hasNotableRecording, Goodbye]
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A.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
Farewell
"Farewell" is a song by Rihanna from her 2011 studio album *Talk That Talk*, known as an emotional pop ballad about parting and letting go.
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C.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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D.
Goodbyes
"Goodbyes" is a melancholic hip-hop/pop single by Post Malone featuring Young Thug, known for its themes of heartbreak and its commercial success on global music charts.
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E.
Adieu
Adieu is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting themes of love, loss, and psychological trauma.
- 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: Goodbye Target entity description: "Goodbye" is a jazz standard composed by Gordon Jenkins that became widely known as the Benny Goodman Orchestra’s closing theme song.
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A.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
Farewell
"Farewell" is a song by Rihanna from her 2011 studio album *Talk That Talk*, known as an emotional pop ballad about parting and letting go.
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C.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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D.
Goodbyes
"Goodbyes" is a melancholic hip-hop/pop single by Post Malone featuring Young Thug, known for its themes of heartbreak and its commercial success on global music charts.
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E.
Adieu
Adieu is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting themes of love, loss, and psychological trauma.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | jazz standard ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Benny Goodman ⓘ |
| closingThemeFor | Benny Goodman Orchestra ⓘ |
| composer | Gordon Jenkins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasMelodyType | ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Anita O’Day
ⓘ
linked to:
Anita O'Day
Art Tatum ⓘ Barney Kessel ⓘ Benny Carter ⓘ Benny Goodman ⓘ Bill Evans ⓘ Billie Holiday ⓘ Buddy Rich ⓘ Charlie Parker ⓘ Chet Baker ⓘ Count Basie ⓘ Dexter Gordon ⓘ Dizzy Gillespie ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Gerry Mulligan ⓘ Harry James ⓘ Herbie Hancock ⓘ Joe Pass ⓘ June Christy ⓘ Keith Jarrett ⓘ Lester Young ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Milt Jackson ⓘ Oscar Peterson ⓘ Red Garland ⓘ Sarah Vaughan ⓘ Stan Getz ⓘ Stan Kenton ⓘ Stanley Turrentine ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ Woody Herman ⓘ Wynton Marsalis ⓘ Zoot Sims ⓘ |
| hasType |
big band standard
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Gordon Jenkins ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Benny Goodman Orchestra ⓘ |
| use | closing theme song ⓘ |
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: Goodbye Description of subject: "Goodbye" is a jazz standard composed by Gordon Jenkins that became widely known as the Benny Goodman Orchestra’s closing theme song.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Goodbye
linked to: Goodbye
linked to: Goodbye