The Nearness of You
E386988
"The Nearness of You" is a classic popular song by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington that has become a jazz standard, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Nearness of You canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3759137 — 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 Nearness of You Context triple: [Ella and Louis, hasTrack, The Nearness of You]
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A.
The Very Thought of You
"The Very Thought of You" is a classic popular song, widely recognized as a jazz and pop standard that has been recorded by numerous artists over the decades.
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B.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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C.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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D.
A Song for You
"A Song for You" is a soulful ballad, originally written and recorded by Leon Russell, that has become a widely covered standard in pop and R&B music.
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E.
Almost Like Being in Love
"Almost Like Being in Love" is a popular show tune from the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical *Brigadoon* that has since become a jazz and pop standard.
- 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 Nearness of You Target entity description: "The Nearness of You" is a classic popular song by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington that has become a jazz standard, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists.
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A.
The Very Thought of You
"The Very Thought of You" is a classic popular song, widely recognized as a jazz and pop standard that has been recorded by numerous artists over the decades.
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B.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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C.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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D.
A Song for You
"A Song for You" is a soulful ballad, originally written and recorded by Leon Russell, that has become a widely covered standard in pop and R&B music.
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E.
Almost Like Being in Love
"Almost Like Being in Love" is a popular show tune from the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical *Brigadoon* that has since become a jazz and pop standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | Hoagy Carmichael ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Anita O’Day recording
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Art Farmer recording ⓘ Billie Holiday recording ⓘ Carmen McRae recording ⓘ Cassandra Wilson recording ⓘ Charlie Parker recording ⓘ Chet Baker recording ⓘ Diana Krall recording ⓘ Dinah Washington recording ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald recording ⓘ Etta Jones recording ⓘ Frank Sinatra recording ⓘ George Shearing recording ⓘ Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recording ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. recording ⓘ James Taylor recording ⓘ Jo Stafford recording ⓘ Joe Pass recording ⓘ John Coltrane recording ⓘ Joni Mitchell recording ⓘ Julie London recording ⓘ Keith Jarrett recording ⓘ Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald duet recording ⓘ Mel Tormé recording ⓘ Michael Brecker recording ⓘ Michael Bublé recording ⓘ Miles Davis recording ⓘ Nancy Wilson recording ⓘ Nat King Cole recording ⓘ Norah Jones recording ⓘ Oscar Peterson recording ⓘ Peggy Lee recording ⓘ Phil Woods recording ⓘ Red Garland recording ⓘ Sarah Vaughan recording ⓘ Shirley Horn recording ⓘ Stan Getz recording ⓘ Tony Bennett recording ⓘ Willie Nelson recording ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | Romance in the Dark ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ned Washington ⓘ |
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 Nearness of You Description of subject: "The Nearness of You" is a classic popular song by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington that has become a jazz standard, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.