The Times They Are a-Changin'
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"The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a landmark 1960s protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem for social and political change.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150357 — 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: The Times They Are a-Changin' Context triple: [Bob Dylan, notableWork, The Times They Are a-Changin']
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A.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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B.
It Don’t Have to Change
"It Don’t Have to Change" is a soulful R&B track by John Legend from his debut album "Get Lifted," showcasing his smooth vocals and reflective songwriting.
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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.
Hymn to Liberty
"Hymn to Liberty" is a 19th-century Greek patriotic poem by Dionysios Solomos, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, that celebrates the Greek War of Independence and serves as Greece’s national anthem.
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E.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail is a landmark 1963 open letter by Martin Luther King Jr. defending nonviolent civil disobedience against racial injustice and articulating the moral urgency of the civil rights movement.
- 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: The Times They Are a-Changin' Target entity description: "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a landmark 1960s protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem for social and political change.
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A.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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B.
It Don’t Have to Change
"It Don’t Have to Change" is a soulful R&B track by John Legend from his debut album "Get Lifted," showcasing his smooth vocals and reflective songwriting.
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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.
Hymn to Liberty
"Hymn to Liberty" is a 19th-century Greek patriotic poem by Dionysios Solomos, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, that celebrates the Greek War of Independence and serves as Greece’s national anthem.
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E.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail is a landmark 1963 open letter by Martin Luther King Jr. defending nonviolent civil disobedience against racial injustice and articulating the moral urgency of the civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
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protest song ⓘ single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| album | The Times They Are a-Changin' self-link ⓘ |
| artist | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
anthem for political change
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anthem for social change ⓘ anthem of the 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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protest music ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Billy Joel
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Bruce Springsteen ⓘ Cher ⓘ Nina Simone ⓘ Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ Phil Collins ⓘ Simon & Garfunkel ⓘ The Byrds ⓘ Tracy Chapman ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
referenced in political speeches
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used in films and television to evoke the 1960s ⓘ widely cited as a classic protest song ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
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harmonica ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
civil rights
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generation gap ⓘ political change ⓘ protest ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| hasNotableLine |
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
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For the times they are a-changin' ⓘ The Times They Are a-Changin' self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The times they are a-changin'
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command ⓘ |
| includedIn | Bob Dylan live setlists ⓘ |
| influencedMovement |
1960s counterculture
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anti-war movement ⓘ civil rights movement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1960s protest music canon ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| publisher | M. Witmark & Sons ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1963 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| writer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
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: The Times They Are a-Changin' Description of subject: "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a landmark 1960s protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem for social and political change.
Referenced by (13)
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The times they are a-changin'
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are a-Changin'
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
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The Times They Are A-Changin'