Makin’ Whoopee
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"Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makin' Whoopee | 6 |
| Makin’ Whoopee canonical | 4 |
| song “Makin’ Whoopee” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3772771 — 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: Makin’ Whoopee Context triple: [Ella and Louis Again, hasPart, Makin’ Whoopee]
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A.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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B.
Whatcha Gon Do
"Whatcha Gon Do" is a track by Snoop Dogg featured on his 1998 studio album "Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told."
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C.
Doin' It
"Doin' It" is a mid-1990s hip hop single by LL Cool J known for its smooth, sensual vibe and catchy chorus.
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D.
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
"Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" is a 1979 rock ballad by American band Journey, known for its soulful vocals and blues-influenced style.
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E.
Hip Hug-Her
"Hip Hug-Her" is a 1967 soul and R&B instrumental album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, known for its tight grooves and influential Memphis sound.
- 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: Makin’ Whoopee Target entity description: "Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
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A.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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B.
Whatcha Gon Do
"Whatcha Gon Do" is a track by Snoop Dogg featured on his 1998 studio album "Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told."
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C.
Doin' It
"Doin' It" is a mid-1990s hip hop single by LL Cool J known for its smooth, sensual vibe and catchy chorus.
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D.
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
"Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" is a 1979 rock ballad by American band Journey, known for its soulful vocals and blues-influenced style.
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E.
Hip Hug-Her
"Hip Hug-Her" is a 1967 soul and R&B instrumental album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, known for its tight grooves and influential Memphis sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
pop standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Walter Donaldson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstIntroducedBy | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| firstIntroducedIn | Whoopee! ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasAlternateSpelling |
Makin' Whoopee
ⓘ
linked to:
Makin’ Whoopee
|
| hasForm | popular song form ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric | "Another bride, another June" ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones version of "Makin’ Whoopee"
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Michelle Pfeiffer performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" ⓘ Ray Charles and Betty Carter version of "Makin’ Whoopee" ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
ballad
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swing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTone |
playful
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satirical ⓘ |
| lyricist | Gus Kahn ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Bing Crosby
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Chet Baker ⓘ Dinah Washington ⓘ Doris Day ⓘ Dr. John ⓘ Eddie Cantor ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Michelle Pfeiffer ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ |
| originalMedium | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoire | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| performancePractice | often interpreted as a playful, romantic duet ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| recordingEra |
78 rpm era
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CD era ⓘ LP era ⓘ digital era ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
comic view of married life
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consequences of marriage ⓘ |
| theme |
humor
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marriage ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceFormat |
solo vocal with accompaniment
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vocal duet ⓘ |
| usedInFilm |
The Fabulous Baker Boys
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Whoopee! (1930 film) ⓘ |
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: Makin’ Whoopee Description of subject: "Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Edward Cantor
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