Why Don’t You Do Right?
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"Why Don’t You Do Right?" is a classic jazz and pop standard, popularized by Peggy Lee’s sultry 1942 recording that became one of her signature songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Why Don’t You Do Right? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5787731 — 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 Don’t You Do Right? Context triple: [Peggy Lee, notableWork, Why Don’t You Do Right?]
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A.
You Ain't Right
"You Ain't Right" is a high-energy dance-pop track by Janet Jackson from her 2001 album "All for You," known for its edgy production and assertive lyrics.
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B.
I’m Wrong but You Ain’t Right
"I’m Wrong but You Ain’t Right" is a country song recorded by American artist Brantley Gilbert, featured on his album "Cocky."
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C.
Why Don’t You Write Me
"Why Don’t You Write Me" is a song by the American folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, featured on their acclaimed 1970 album "Bridge over Troubled Water."
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D.
No, No, No
"No, No, No" is the debut single by American R&B group Destiny's Child, recognized for introducing the group to mainstream audiences in the late 1990s.
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E.
You Haven't Done Nothin'
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" is a 1974 funk/soul protest song by Stevie Wonder that sharply criticizes political dishonesty, notably associated with the Nixon era.
- 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 Don’t You Do Right? Target entity description: "Why Don’t You Do Right?" is a classic jazz and pop standard, popularized by Peggy Lee’s sultry 1942 recording that became one of her signature songs.
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A.
You Ain't Right
"You Ain't Right" is a high-energy dance-pop track by Janet Jackson from her 2001 album "All for You," known for its edgy production and assertive lyrics.
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B.
I’m Wrong but You Ain’t Right
"I’m Wrong but You Ain’t Right" is a country song recorded by American artist Brantley Gilbert, featured on his album "Cocky."
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C.
Why Don’t You Write Me
"Why Don’t You Write Me" is a song by the American folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, featured on their acclaimed 1970 album "Bridge over Troubled Water."
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D.
No, No, No
"No, No, No" is the debut single by American R&B group Destiny's Child, recognized for introducing the group to mainstream audiences in the late 1990s.
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E.
You Haven't Done Nothin'
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" is a 1974 funk/soul protest song by Stevie Wonder that sharply criticizes political dishonesty, notably associated with the Nixon era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
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song ⓘ |
| basedOn | Weed Smoker’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Kansas Joe McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs | sultry ⓘ |
| era | 1940s popular music ⓘ |
| firstRecordingArtist | Harlem Hamfats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstRecordingYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasForm | 32-bar song form ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
blues
ⓘ
swing ⓘ |
| hasSignatureStatusFor | Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Great American Songbook repertoire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Kansas Joe McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricTheme | woman confronting a man about money and responsibility ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Peggy Lee’s intimate vocal delivery
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association with femme fatale image ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Amy Irving
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benny Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Rabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie London NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinead O’Connor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Weed Smoker’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| PeggyLeeRecordingLabel | Capitol Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| PeggyLeeRecordingOrchestraLeader | Benny Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| PeggyLeeRecordingType | vocal with big band ⓘ |
| performanceContext | nightclub performance number ⓘ |
| performedByFictionalCharacter | Jessica Rabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
NERFINISHED
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Jessica Rabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie London NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | slow swing ⓘ |
| usedIn | film Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| vocalStyleAssociatedWith | torch song ⓘ |
| yearOfPeggyLeeHitRecording | 1942 ⓘ |
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: Why Don’t You Do Right? Description of subject: "Why Don’t You Do Right?" is a classic jazz and pop standard, popularized by Peggy Lee’s sultry 1942 recording that became one of her signature songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.