Yesterdays
E591694
"Yesterdays" is a celebrated jazz piano recording by Art Tatum, renowned for its virtuosic improvisation and harmonic sophistication.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yesterdays canonical | 2 |
| Yesterdays (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6416525 — 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: Yesterdays Context triple: [Art Tatum, notableWork, Yesterdays]
-
A.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a song by Guns N' Roses, best known from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II, featuring reflective lyrics and a melodic hard rock style.
-
B.
All Those Yesterdays
"All Those Yesterdays" is a reflective, melodic closing track by Pearl Jam from their 1998 album *Yield*.
-
C.
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
"It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is a soulful R&B ballad popularized by Boyz II Men, known for its rich harmonies and emotional reflection on loss and farewell.
-
D.
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a classic 1950 American comedy film, based on the stage play by Garson Kanin, best known for Judy Holliday’s Oscar-winning performance and its satirical take on political corruption and social class.
-
E.
Yesterdays New Quintet
Yesterdays New Quintet is a jazz-influenced, instrumental hip-hop project created and produced by Madlib, known for its experimental fusion of live-sounding instrumentation and sample-based beats.
- 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: Yesterdays Target entity description: "Yesterdays" is a celebrated jazz piano recording by Art Tatum, renowned for its virtuosic improvisation and harmonic sophistication.
-
A.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a song by Guns N' Roses, best known from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II, featuring reflective lyrics and a melodic hard rock style.
-
B.
All Those Yesterdays
"All Those Yesterdays" is a reflective, melodic closing track by Pearl Jam from their 1998 album *Yield*.
-
C.
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
"It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is a soulful R&B ballad popularized by Boyz II Men, known for its rich harmonies and emotional reflection on loss and farewell.
-
D.
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a classic 1950 American comedy film, based on the stage play by Garson Kanin, best known for Judy Holliday’s Oscar-winning performance and its satirical take on political corruption and social class.
-
E.
Yesterdays New Quintet
Yesterdays New Quintet is a jazz-influenced, instrumental hip-hop project created and produced by Madlib, known for its experimental fusion of live-sounding instrumentation and sample-based beats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz pianist
ⓘ
jazz piano recording ⓘ musical work ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Yesterdays (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yesterdays
|
| composer | Jerome Kern ⓘ |
| composerOfOriginalSong | Jerome Kern ⓘ |
| contains |
double-time passages
ⓘ
extended solo cadenza sections ⓘ ornamented melodic paraphrase ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReputation | highly acclaimed by jazz critics ⓘ |
| describedAs | tour de force of jazz piano ⓘ |
| era | swing era ⓘ |
| form | theme and variations ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ |
| harmonicFeatures |
chromatic inner-voice movement
ⓘ
dense chord voicings ⓘ extended tertian harmony ⓘ |
| improvisationOver | chord changes of Yesterdays ⓘ |
| improvisationType | solo piano improvisation on standard ⓘ |
| influenced |
bebop-era pianists
ⓘ
modern jazz piano playing ⓘ |
| instrumentation | solo piano ⓘ |
| key | multiple key centers (modulatory) ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| lyricist | Otto Harbach ⓘ |
| lyricistOfOriginalSong | Otto Harbach ⓘ |
| notableFor |
harmonic sophistication
ⓘ
virtuosic improvisation ⓘ |
| notableWork | Yesterdays (Art Tatum recording) ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoireOf | Art Tatum ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
high degree of spontaneity
ⓘ
ornate embellishment of melody ⓘ |
| performer | Art Tatum ⓘ |
| primaryAudience | jazz listeners ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Art Tatum ⓘ |
| style |
bebop-influenced harmony
ⓘ
stride-influenced piano ⓘ |
| tempo | medium to fast ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
advanced chord substitutions
ⓘ
complex reharmonization ⓘ rapid arpeggios ⓘ rubato phrasing ⓘ stride left-hand patterns ⓘ |
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: Yesterdays Description of subject: "Yesterdays" is a celebrated jazz piano recording by Art Tatum, renowned for its virtuosic improvisation and harmonic sophistication.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.