"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"
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"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a classic early 20th-century blues and jazz standard, widely recorded and performed since its publication in the 1920s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" canonical | 1 |
| "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6603095 — 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: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" Context triple: [Clarence Williams, notableWork, "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"]
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A.
Baby Come Home
"Baby Come Home" is a song featured on the album "Cocky" by American rock musician Kid Rock.
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B.
What's Become of the Baby
"What's Become of the Baby" is an experimental, heavily processed psychedelic track by the Grateful Dead, notable for its abstract vocals and unconventional structure.
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C.
Come Home to Mama
Come Home to Mama is a 2012 studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright that blends confessional lyrics with folk-rock and pop influences.
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D.
When You Come Home to Me
"When You Come Home to Me" is a recurring audition song within the musical *The Last Five Years*, used to highlight the character Cathy’s struggles and aspirations as a performer.
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E.
Baby, Come to Me
"Baby, Come to Me" is a 1982 R&B duet by James Ingram and Patti Austin that became a major hit and one of Ingram’s signature songs.
- 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: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" Target entity description: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a classic early 20th-century blues and jazz standard, widely recorded and performed since its publication in the 1920s.
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A.
Baby Come Home
"Baby Come Home" is a song featured on the album "Cocky" by American rock musician Kid Rock.
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B.
What's Become of the Baby
"What's Become of the Baby" is an experimental, heavily processed psychedelic track by the Grateful Dead, notable for its abstract vocals and unconventional structure.
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C.
Come Home to Mama
Come Home to Mama is a 2012 studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright that blends confessional lyrics with folk-rock and pop influences.
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D.
When You Come Home to Me
"When You Come Home to Me" is a recurring audition song within the musical *The Last Five Years*, used to highlight the character Cathy’s struggles and aspirations as a performer.
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E.
Baby, Come to Me
"Baby, Come to Me" is a 1982 R&B duet by James Ingram and Patti Austin that became a major hit and one of Ingram’s signature songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Baby Won't You Please Come Home? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Charles Warfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 1920s popular music ⓘ |
| firstRecordedBy | Bessie Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| hasBecome | jazz standard ⓘ |
| hasBeenRecordedSince | 1920s ⓘ |
| hasCallAndResponseElements | yes ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later jazz vocal repertoire ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
lost love
ⓘ
plea for a lover to return ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | 32-bar song form ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyIncludedIn |
blues repertoire
ⓘ
traditional jazz setlists ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Great American Songbook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPublicDomainStatusInUS | likely public domain (early 1920s publication) ⓘ |
| isStandardKey | B-flat major ⓘ |
| isWidelyRecorded | yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Charles Warfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clarence Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Bessie Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billie Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinah Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Fats Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat King Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
frequently interpreted as a torch song
ⓘ
often performed with small jazz combo ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1923 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | a person begging their partner to return home ⓘ |
| typicalTempo | slow to medium ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | blues-influenced ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" Description of subject: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a classic early 20th-century blues and jazz standard, widely recorded and performed since its publication in the 1920s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"