Autumn Leaves (English lyrics)

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jazz standard pop standard song

"Autumn Leaves" (English lyrics) is the widely known English adaptation of the French song "Les feuilles mortes," written by American lyricist Johnny Mercer and popularized as a jazz and pop standard.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Autumn Leaves	21
Autumn Leaves (English lyrics) canonical	2
"Autumn Leaves"	1
Autumn Leaves (cover)	1
Autumn Leaves reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1955	1
“Autumn Leaves”	1
“Autumn Leaves” (song)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2529521 — 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: Autumn Leaves (English lyrics)
Context triple: [Johnny Mercer, wroteSong, Autumn Leaves (English lyrics)]

A. Autumn Leaves
"Autumn Leaves" is a mid-19th-century painting by John Everett Millais that depicts a group of girls gathering fallen leaves at dusk, often interpreted as a meditation on youth, transience, and mortality.
B. Poplars, Autumn Sun
"Poplars, Autumn Sun" is a painting by Claude Monet from his Poplars series, depicting a stand of poplar trees bathed in warm autumn light in his characteristic Impressionist style.
C. Poplars, Autumn
"Poplars, Autumn" is an Impressionist landscape painting by Claude Monet depicting a stand of poplar trees in autumnal light and color, created as part of his larger Poplars series.
D. Love in Autumn
Love in Autumn is a painting by Victorian artist Simeon Solomon that exemplifies his symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite-influenced exploration of love, beauty, and emotional introspection.
E. I’ll Be Seeing You
"I’ll Be Seeing You" is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a television reporter drawn into a dangerous mystery after recognizing her own face on a missing woman’s body.
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: Autumn Leaves (English lyrics)
Target entity description: "Autumn Leaves" (English lyrics) is the widely known English adaptation of the French song "Les feuilles mortes," written by American lyricist Johnny Mercer and popularized as a jazz and pop standard.

A. Autumn Leaves
"Autumn Leaves" is a mid-19th-century painting by John Everett Millais that depicts a group of girls gathering fallen leaves at dusk, often interpreted as a meditation on youth, transience, and mortality.
B. Poplars, Autumn Sun
"Poplars, Autumn Sun" is a painting by Claude Monet from his Poplars series, depicting a stand of poplar trees bathed in warm autumn light in his characteristic Impressionist style.
C. Poplars, Autumn
"Poplars, Autumn" is an Impressionist landscape painting by Claude Monet depicting a stand of poplar trees in autumnal light and color, created as part of his larger Poplars series.
D. Love in Autumn
Love in Autumn is a painting by Victorian artist Simeon Solomon that exemplifies his symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite-influenced exploration of love, beauty, and emotional introspection.
E. I’ll Be Seeing You
"I’ll Be Seeing You" is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a television reporter drawn into a dangerous mystery after recognizing her own face on a missing woman’s body.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	jazz standard ⓘ pop standard ⓘ song ⓘ
adaptationOf	Les feuilles mortes ⓘ
basedOn	Les feuilles mortes ⓘ
commonlyPerformedAs	ballad ⓘ
commonlyPerformedIn	jazz repertoire ⓘ pop repertoire ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
genre	jazz ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ
hasNotableLyricLine	But I miss you most of all, my darling ⓘ When autumn leaves start to fall ⓘ
hasOriginalLanguage	French ⓘ
hasTheme	lost love ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ passing of time ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
lyricist	Johnny Mercer ⓘ
notableIn	Great American Songbook ⓘ
originalTitle	Les feuilles mortes ⓘ
popularizedAs	jazz standard ⓘ pop standard ⓘ
sharesMelodyWith	Les feuilles mortes ⓘ
usesMotif	autumn leaves as metaphor for memories ⓘ

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