It Had to Be You
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"It Had to Be You" is a classic 1924 popular song by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn that has become a jazz and pop standard, widely recorded and featured in numerous films and performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It Had to Be You canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141568 — 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: It Had to Be You Context triple: [Great American Songbook, hasNotableSong, It Had to Be You]
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A.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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B.
It Might Be You
"It Might Be You" is a romantic ballad performed by Stephen Bishop that became widely known as the love theme from the 1982 film *Tootsie*.
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C.
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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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
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.
- 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: It Had to Be You Target entity description: "It Had to Be You" is a classic 1924 popular song by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn that has become a jazz and pop standard, widely recorded and featured in numerous films and performances.
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A.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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B.
It Might Be You
"It Might Be You" is a romantic ballad performed by Stephen Bishop that became widely known as the love theme from the 1982 film *Tootsie*.
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C.
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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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | Isham Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfOrigin | 1920s ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm |
A League of Their Own
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Annie Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Casablanca NERFINISHED ⓘ When Harry Met Sally... NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredInTelevision | various television programs ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasAlternateKey | E-flat major ⓘ |
| hasKey | B-flat major ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | 32-bar AABA form ⓘ |
| hasNotableArrangementBy | Harry Connick Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
"I wandered around and finally found somebody who"
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"It had to be you" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Barbra Streisand
NERFINISHED
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Billie Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Bing Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Isham Jones and His Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Bublé NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Rod Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSheetMusicCoverArtist | Gene Buck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
destined relationship
ⓘ
romantic love ⓘ |
| hasType | Tin Pan Alley song ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | Great American Songbook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Gus Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | American popular music canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1924 ⓘ |
| tempo | medium ballad ⓘ |
| usedAs |
film soundtrack song
ⓘ
wedding song ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: It Had to Be You Description of subject: "It Had to Be You" is a classic 1924 popular song by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn that has become a jazz and pop standard, widely recorded and featured in numerous films and performances.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.