Changes
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"Changes" is a socially conscious hip-hop song by Tupac Shakur that reflects on racism, poverty, and systemic injustice in America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Changes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280379 — 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: Changes Context triple: [Tupac Shakur, notableWork, Changes]
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A.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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B.
Change
"Change" is a reflective, melodic rock song by Blind Melon known for its introspective lyrics and Shannon Hoon’s emotive vocal performance.
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C.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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D.
Things Done Changed
"Things Done Changed" is the reflective opening track on The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album, contrasting his harsh past experiences with his newfound success and the changing realities of street life.
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E.
Changing Form
Changing Form is a prominent abstract steel sculpture located in Seattle’s Kerry Park, often noted as a popular foreground for views of the city skyline and Mount Rainier.
- 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: Changes Target entity description: "Changes" is a socially conscious hip-hop song by Tupac Shakur that reflects on racism, poverty, and systemic injustice in America.
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A.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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B.
Change
"Change" is a reflective, melodic rock song by Blind Melon known for its introspective lyrics and Shannon Hoon’s emotive vocal performance.
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C.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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D.
Things Done Changed
"Things Done Changed" is the reflective opening track on The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album, contrasting his harsh past experiences with his newfound success and the changing realities of street life.
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E.
Changing Form
Changing Form is a prominent abstract steel sculpture located in Seattle’s Kerry Park, often noted as a popular foreground for views of the city skyline and Mount Rainier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Tupac Shakur ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Billboard Hot 100 number 32
ⓘ
UK Singles Chart number 3 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | praised for social commentary ⓘ |
| featuresArtist | Talent ⓘ |
| genre |
conscious hip hop
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Changes music video ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
hope for change
ⓘ
inner-city violence ⓘ police brutality ⓘ poverty ⓘ racism ⓘ social inequality ⓘ systemic injustice ⓘ war on drugs ⓘ |
| includedIn | numerous Tupac compilation albums ⓘ |
| isOneOf | Tupac Shakur's most famous songs ⓘ |
| isPosthumousReleaseOf | Tupac Shakur ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsMention |
Black-on-Black crime
ⓘ
Rodney King beating ⓘ police harassment ⓘ war on drugs ⓘ |
| musicVideoFeatures | archival footage of Tupac Shakur ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
ⓘ
surface form:
Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance
|
| notableLyric |
"I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself"
ⓘ
"It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said" ⓘ "We ain't ready to see a Black president" ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Greatest Hits ⓘ |
| performer |
Tupac Shakur
ⓘ
surface form:
2Pac
|
| producer | Big D The Impossible ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1992 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Amaru Entertainment
ⓘ
Death Row Records ⓘ Interscope Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-10-13 ⓘ |
| releaseType | posthumous single ⓘ |
| samplesArtist |
Bruce Hornsby
ⓘ
surface form:
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
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| samplesWork |
The Way It Is (song)
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surface form:
The Way It Is
|
| writer |
Bruce Hornsby
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Deon Evans ⓘ Tupac Shakur ⓘ |
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: Changes Description of subject: "Changes" is a socially conscious hip-hop song by Tupac Shakur that reflects on racism, poverty, and systemic injustice in America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tupac Shakur