What It's Like
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"What It's Like" is a 1998 hip hop song by Everlast that blends acoustic guitar with reflective storytelling about hardship and social struggle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What It's Like canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380669 — 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: What It's Like Context triple: [Everlast, notableWork, What It's Like]
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A.
What It Takes
"What It Takes" is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989 as a power ballad from their album "Pump."
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B.
It Is What It Is
It Is What It Is is a conceptual art project by British artist Jeremy Deller that examines the Iraq War through public dialogue and the display of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bombing.
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C.
It’s Like That
"It's Like That" is a 2005 uptempo R&B/hip hop single by Mariah Carey that marked her commercial comeback ahead of the release of her album "The Emancipation of Mimi."
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D.
It's Like That
"It's Like That" is a hip hop track by J Dilla featured on his influential debut solo album "Welcome 2 Detroit."
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E.
Like It Is
"Like It Is" is a track by American rapper Vince Staples that showcases his introspective lyrics and distinctive West Coast-influenced 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: What It's Like Target entity description: "What It's Like" is a 1998 hip hop song by Everlast that blends acoustic guitar with reflective storytelling about hardship and social struggle.
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A.
What It Takes
"What It Takes" is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989 as a power ballad from their album "Pump."
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B.
It Is What It Is
It Is What It Is is a conceptual art project by British artist Jeremy Deller that examines the Iraq War through public dialogue and the display of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bombing.
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C.
It’s Like That
"It's Like That" is a 2005 uptempo R&B/hip hop single by Mariah Carey that marked her commercial comeback ahead of the release of her album "The Emancipation of Mimi."
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D.
It's Like That
"It's Like That" is a hip hop track by J Dilla featured on his influential debut solo album "Welcome 2 Detroit."
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E.
Like It Is
"Like It Is" is a track by American rapper Vince Staples that showcases his introspective lyrics and distinctive West Coast-influenced sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Whitey Ford Sings the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Everlast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSAlternativeSongs | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 13 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSMainstreamRock | 1 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBySingle | Ends ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ rap rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Today (Watch Me Shine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric |
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
ⓘ
Then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
blend of acoustic guitar and hip hop beats
ⓘ
storytelling verses about different characters in crisis ⓘ |
| labelImprint | Tommy Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 5:04 ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
empathy ⓘ hardship ⓘ poverty ⓘ social struggle ⓘ unplanned pregnancy ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Dave Meyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Everlast discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Everlast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | The Rhythm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Dante Ross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everlast NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gamble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Tommy Boy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-06-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| writer | Erik Schrody 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: What It's Like Description of subject: "What It's Like" is a 1998 hip hop song by Everlast that blends acoustic guitar with reflective storytelling about hardship and social struggle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.