Every Time We Say Goodbye
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"Every Time We Say Goodbye" is a classic popular song by American composer Cole Porter, widely regarded as a jazz standard and frequently recorded by leading vocalists and instrumentalists.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Every Time We Say Goodbye canonical | 5 |
| Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 1 |
| Everytime We Say Goodbye | 1 |
| Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005676 — 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: Every Time We Say Goodbye Context triple: [Cole Porter, notableSong, Every Time We Say Goodbye]
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A.
Time to Say Goodbye
"Time to Say Goodbye" is a popular classical crossover song, famously performed by Andrea Bocelli (often with Sarah Brightman), known for its powerful, emotional melody and widespread use at major public events and ceremonies.
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B.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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C.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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D.
"I'll Be Missing You"
"I'll Be Missing You" is a Grammy-winning 1997 tribute song by Puff Daddy (P. Diddy), Faith Evans, and 112 dedicated to the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G., built around a sample of The Police's "Every Breath You Take."
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E.
"My Way"
"My Way" is a punk rock cover of the classic pop standard, famously performed by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with sneering, anarchic lyrics and attitude.
- 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: Every Time We Say Goodbye Target entity description: "Every Time We Say Goodbye" is a classic popular song by American composer Cole Porter, widely regarded as a jazz standard and frequently recorded by leading vocalists and instrumentalists.
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A.
Time to Say Goodbye
"Time to Say Goodbye" is a popular classical crossover song, famously performed by Andrea Bocelli (often with Sarah Brightman), known for its powerful, emotional melody and widespread use at major public events and ceremonies.
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B.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
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C.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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D.
"I'll Be Missing You"
"I'll Be Missing You" is a Grammy-winning 1997 tribute song by Puff Daddy (P. Diddy), Faith Evans, and 112 dedicated to the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G., built around a sample of The Police's "Every Breath You Take."
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E.
"My Way"
"My Way" is a punk rock cover of the classic pop standard, famously performed by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with sneering, anarchic lyrics and attitude.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReputation | widely regarded as one of Cole Porter’s finest ballads ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
chromatic harmony
ⓘ
lyrical melody ⓘ modulation from major to minor ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | song form ⓘ |
| hasNotableCover |
Annie Lennox recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye
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Bill Evans recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Chet Baker recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ John Coltrane recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Nina Simone recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Ray Charles recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Sarah Vaughan recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ Tony Bennett recording of Every Time We Say Goodbye ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric | Every time we say goodbye, I die a little ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
longing
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love ⓘ parting ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
performed in jazz clubs
ⓘ
recorded on instrumental jazz albums ⓘ recorded on vocal jazz albums ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Seven Lively Arts ⓘ |
| introducedInMedium | Broadway musical revue ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPerformedAs | ballad ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPerformedBy |
jazz instrumentalists
ⓘ
jazz vocalists ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cole Porter
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surface form:
Cole Porter song catalog
|
| isStandardIn |
Great American Songbook
ⓘ
jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Cole Porter ⓘ |
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: Every Time We Say Goodbye Description of subject: "Every Time We Say Goodbye" is a classic popular song by American composer Cole Porter, widely regarded as a jazz standard and frequently recorded by leading vocalists and instrumentalists.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
this entity surface form:
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
subject surface form:
My Favorite Things
this entity surface form:
Everytime We Say Goodbye
subject surface form:
Anytime