What You Want (Mase featuring Total)
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"What You Want" is a 1997 hip hop and R&B single by rapper Mase featuring the vocal group Total, known for its smooth production and catchy, melodic hook.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What You Want (Mase featuring Total) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5091959 — 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)
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Target entity: What You Want (Mase featuring Total) Context triple: [Total, notableWork, What You Want (Mase featuring Total)]
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A.
You Got What I Want
"You Got What I Want" is a track from Snoop Dogg’s 1998 studio album *Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told*, showcasing his late-90s No Limit Records era sound.
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B.
So What'cha Want
"So What'cha Want" is a 1992 hip hop single by the Beastie Boys known for its distorted vocals, funky groove, and iconic, psychedelic music video.
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C.
Whatever You Want
"Whatever You Want" is a smooth R&B ballad by Tony! Toni! Toné! that became one of the group's signature hits in the early 1990s.
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D.
Wanted You
"Wanted You" is a popular R&B-influenced hip-hop track by rapper Nav that helped raise his profile in the late 2010s.
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E.
You Want This
"You Want This" is an upbeat, funk-infused R&B song by Janet Jackson from her 1993 album "janet."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: What You Want (Mase featuring Total) Target entity description: "What You Want" is a 1997 hip hop and R&B single by rapper Mase featuring the vocal group Total, known for its smooth production and catchy, melodic hook.
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A.
You Got What I Want
"You Got What I Want" is a track from Snoop Dogg’s 1998 studio album *Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told*, showcasing his late-90s No Limit Records era sound.
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B.
So What'cha Want
"So What'cha Want" is a 1992 hip hop single by the Beastie Boys known for its distorted vocals, funky groove, and iconic, psychedelic music video.
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C.
Whatever You Want
"Whatever You Want" is a smooth R&B ballad by Tony! Toni! Toné! that became one of the group's signature hits in the early 1990s.
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D.
Wanted You
"Wanted You" is a popular R&B-influenced hip-hop track by rapper Nav that helped raise his profile in the late 2010s.
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E.
You Want This
"You Want This" is an upbeat, funk-infused R&B song by Janet Jackson from her 1993 album "janet."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| collaborationBetween | solo rapper and R&B vocal group ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1990s ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | commercial single ⓘ |
| era | Bad Boy Records peak period ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | Total NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ |
| hasHook | sung by Total ⓘ |
| hasMood |
laid-back
ⓘ
romantic ⓘ upbeat ⓘ |
| hasPart |
rap vocals by Mase
ⓘ
sung vocals by Total ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
club-oriented track
ⓘ
radio-friendly sound ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
R&B listeners
ⓘ
mainstream hip hop listeners ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
material success
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| musicalElement |
laid-back drum pattern
ⓘ
layered R&B harmonies ⓘ smooth bassline ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | East Coast hip hop ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
catchy melodic hook
ⓘ
smooth production ⓘ |
| performer |
Mase
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Total NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| releaseType | collaborative track ⓘ |
| rhythmicFeature | mid-tempo beat ⓘ |
| soundCharacter |
groove-oriented
ⓘ
melodic ⓘ polished production ⓘ |
| vocalContribution |
Mase raps verses
ⓘ
Total sings chorus ⓘ |
| vocalRegister |
female group vocals by Total
ⓘ
male rap vocals by Mase ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
melodic chorus
ⓘ
rap verses ⓘ |
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: What You Want (Mase featuring Total) Description of subject: "What You Want" is a 1997 hip hop and R&B single by rapper Mase featuring the vocal group Total, known for its smooth production and catchy, melodic hook.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.