The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)
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"The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" is a popular 1927 American standard with music by Irving Berlin that has been widely recorded and performed in the jazz and pop repertoire.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| But the Melody Lingers On | 1 |
| The Song Is Ended | 1 |
| The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9367412 — 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: The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) Context triple: [Harry Ruby, notableWork, The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)]
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A.
Ende vom Lied
"Ende vom Lied" is the final, reflective and often bittersweet piece in Robert Schumann’s piano cycle *Fantasiestücke*, Op. 12.
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B.
The Melody at Night, With You
The Melody at Night, With You is an intimate solo piano album by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, celebrated for its sparse, lyrical interpretations of standards and folk tunes.
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C.
The Song We Were Singing
"The Song We Were Singing" is a reflective, nostalgia-tinged track by Paul McCartney from his 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
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D.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
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E.
"The Song Remembers When"
"The Song Remembers When" is a 1993 country ballad and album by Trisha Yearwood, known for its reflective lyrics about how music evokes powerful memories.
- 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: The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) Target entity description: "The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" is a popular 1927 American standard with music by Irving Berlin that has been widely recorded and performed in the jazz and pop repertoire.
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A.
Ende vom Lied
"Ende vom Lied" is the final, reflective and often bittersweet piece in Robert Schumann’s piano cycle *Fantasiestücke*, Op. 12.
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B.
The Melody at Night, With You
The Melody at Night, With You is an intimate solo piano album by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, celebrated for its sparse, lyrical interpretations of standards and folk tunes.
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C.
The Song We Were Singing
"The Song We Were Singing" is a reflective, nostalgia-tinged track by Paul McCartney from his 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
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D.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
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E.
"The Song Remembers When"
"The Song Remembers When" is a 1993 country ballad and album by Trisha Yearwood, known for its reflective lyrics about how music evokes powerful memories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | American standard ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasForm | popular song form ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Artie Shaw
ⓘ
Billie Holiday ⓘ Bing Crosby ⓘ Count Basie ⓘ Dinah Washington ⓘ Doris Day ⓘ Duke Ellington ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Ethel Waters ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Glenn Miller ⓘ Harry James ⓘ Irving Berlin ⓘ Jo Stafford ⓘ Julie London ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Mildred Bailey ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Sarah Vaughan ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
love
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memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoire |
jazz repertoire
ⓘ
pop repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| titleIncludes |
But the Melody Lingers On
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The Song Is Ended ⓘ |
| yearOfComposition | 1927 ⓘ |
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: The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) Description of subject: "The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)" is a popular 1927 American standard with music by Irving Berlin that has been widely recorded and performed in the jazz and pop repertoire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)
linked to: The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)