It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is Public Enemy’s landmark 1988 hip-hop album, renowned for its politically charged lyrics, dense production, and lasting influence on rap music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back canonical | 21 |
| 1988 studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T788478 — 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: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Context triple: [Def Jam Recordings, notableRelease, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back]
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A.
Rhythm Nation 1814
Rhythm Nation 1814 is Janet Jackson’s socially conscious 1989 concept album that blends pop, R&B, and industrial sounds to address themes of racism, poverty, and unity.
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B.
Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark 1976 double album by Stevie Wonder, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential albums in popular music history.
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C.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
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D.
Sure Thing
"Sure Thing" is a smooth, R&B love song by American singer Miguel that became one of his breakout hits and a fan favorite.
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E.
Beat of the Future
Beat of the Future was the futuristic, youth-oriented musical theme featured in the halftime show of Super Bowl XX.
- 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: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Target entity description: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is Public Enemy’s landmark 1988 hip-hop album, renowned for its politically charged lyrics, dense production, and lasting influence on rap music.
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A.
Rhythm Nation 1814
Rhythm Nation 1814 is Janet Jackson’s socially conscious 1989 concept album that blends pop, R&B, and industrial sounds to address themes of racism, poverty, and unity.
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B.
Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark 1976 double album by Stevie Wonder, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential albums in popular music history.
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C.
Black America Again
Black America Again is a socially conscious hip-hop album by Common that addresses systemic racism, black identity, and political resistance in contemporary America.
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D.
Sure Thing
"Sure Thing" is a smooth, R&B love song by American singer Miguel that became one of his breakout hits and a fan favorite.
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E.
Beat of the Future
Beat of the Future was the futuristic, youth-oriented musical theme featured in the halftime show of Super Bowl XX.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Description of subject: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is Public Enemy’s landmark 1988 hip-hop album, renowned for its politically charged lyrics, dense production, and lasting influence on rap music.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Don't Believe the Hype
subject surface form:
Don't Believe the Hype
this entity surface form:
1988 studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back