Changes
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"Changes" is a 1971 song by David Bowie, known for its reflective lyrics on personal reinvention and its status as one of his signature tracks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Changes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363191 — 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: [David Bowie, 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.
Changes
"Changes" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, known for its poetic lyrics and gentle, introspective tone.
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C.
Changes
Changes is a 2020 studio album by Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber that explores R&B-influenced sounds and themes of love and personal growth.
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D.
Changes
"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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E.
Change
"Change" is a reflective, melodic rock song by Blind Melon known for its introspective lyrics and Shannon Hoon’s emotive vocal performance.
- 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 1971 song by David Bowie, known for its reflective lyrics on personal reinvention and its status as one of his signature tracks.
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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.
Changes
"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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C.
Changes
Changes is a 2020 studio album by Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber that explores R&B-influenced sounds and themes of love and personal growth.
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D.
Changes
"Changes" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, known for its poetic lyrics and gentle, introspective tone.
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E.
Change
"Change" is a reflective, melodic rock song by Blind Melon known for its introspective lyrics and Shannon Hoon’s emotive vocal performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | RCA 2160 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
UK Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs | signature song of David Bowie ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
piano
ⓘ
saxophone ⓘ |
| firstReleasedInTerritory |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Starman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBSide | Andy Warhol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy | Butterfly Boucher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersionOn |
David Live
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stage ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
Time may change me, but I can't trace time
ⓘ
Turn and face the strange ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
change
ⓘ
personal reinvention ⓘ self-reflection ⓘ |
| includedIn |
compilation album Best of Bowie
ⓘ
compilation album Changesonebowie ⓘ compilation album The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:37 ⓘ |
| openingTrackOf | Hunky Dory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Hunky Dory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | Life on Mars? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Trident Studios, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1971-12-17 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| usedInFilm | Shrek 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInTelevisionSeries | Life on Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 1971 song by David Bowie, known for its reflective lyrics on personal reinvention and its status as one of his signature tracks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.