Why Can't You Behave?
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"Why Can't You Behave?" is a popular Cole Porter show tune, introduced in the 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate and later recorded by numerous artists as a jazz and pop standard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Why Can't You Behave? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3772744 — 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: Why Can't You Behave? Context triple: [Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book, hasTrack, Why Can't You Behave?]
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A.
Teach Your Children
"Teach Your Children" is a folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young known for its gentle harmonies and reflective lyrics about intergenerational understanding and guidance.
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B.
This Can't Be Good
"This Can't Be Good" is a song by the American rock band Discipline, known for their dark, progressive rock style.
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C.
How to Be Good
How to Be Good is a comic novel by British author Nick Hornby that explores morality, marriage, and midlife crisis through the perspective of a disillusioned doctor.
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D.
No Manners
"No Manners" is a song by American singer Teyana Taylor from her 2018 R&B album "K.T.S.E."
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E.
The Spoiled Child
The Spoiled Child is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze that exemplifies his sentimental moralizing scenes of domestic life.
- 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: Why Can't You Behave? Target entity description: "Why Can't You Behave?" is a popular Cole Porter show tune, introduced in the 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate and later recorded by numerous artists as a jazz and pop standard.
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A.
Teach Your Children
"Teach Your Children" is a folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young known for its gentle harmonies and reflective lyrics about intergenerational understanding and guidance.
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B.
This Can't Be Good
"This Can't Be Good" is a song by the American rock band Discipline, known for their dark, progressive rock style.
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C.
How to Be Good
How to Be Good is a comic novel by British author Nick Hornby that explores morality, marriage, and midlife crisis through the perspective of a disillusioned doctor.
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D.
No Manners
"No Manners" is a song by American singer Teyana Taylor from her 2018 R&B album "K.T.S.E."
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E.
The Spoiled Child
The Spoiled Child is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze that exemplifies his sentimental moralizing scenes of domestic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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pop standard ⓘ show tune ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Taming of the Shrew (indirectly, via Kiss Me, Kate) ⓘ |
| composer | Cole Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPerformanceYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
jazz
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show tune ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | American popular song of the 1940s ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Kiss Me, Kate ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Cole Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalTheatreGenre | Broadway musical song ⓘ |
| notableRecordingsBy |
Bing Crosby
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Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Jo Stafford ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOf | Kiss Me, Kate ⓘ |
| performanceContext | sung by the character Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| theatricalForm | solo vocal number ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Why Can't You Behave? Description of subject: "Why Can't You Behave?" is a popular Cole Porter show tune, introduced in the 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate and later recorded by numerous artists as a jazz and pop standard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.