A Change Is Gonna Come
E470080
"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a landmark 1964 soul song by Sam Cooke that became an enduring anthem of the American civil rights movement.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Change Is Gonna Come canonical | 11 |
| A Change Is Gonna Come (in film context) | 1 |
| Change Is Gonna Come (track) | 1 |
| including the civil rights anthem A Change Is Gonna Come | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4791065 — 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: A Change Is Gonna Come Context triple: [Sam Cooke, notableWork, A Change Is Gonna Come]
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A.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
"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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B.
Mississippi Goddam
"Mississippi Goddam" is a powerful 1964 protest song by Nina Simone that confronts racism and violence in the United States, particularly in the Jim Crow South.
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C.
We Shall Overcome
"We Shall Overcome" is a landmark protest song that became an anthem of the American civil rights movement and a symbol of nonviolent resistance worldwide.
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D.
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a popular ABBA ballad known for its hopeful lyrics and melodic simplicity, famously featured in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!"
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E.
Sinnerman
"Sinnerman" is a powerful, extended jazz-gospel song by Nina Simone, renowned for its driving piano, intense vocals, and use in numerous films and television shows.
- 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: A Change Is Gonna Come Target entity description: "A Change Is Gonna Come" is a landmark 1964 soul song by Sam Cooke that became an enduring anthem of the American civil rights movement.
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A.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
"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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B.
Mississippi Goddam
"Mississippi Goddam" is a powerful 1964 protest song by Nina Simone that confronts racism and violence in the United States, particularly in the Jim Crow South.
-
C.
We Shall Overcome
"We Shall Overcome" is a landmark protest song that became an anthem of the American civil rights movement and a symbol of nonviolent resistance worldwide.
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D.
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a popular ABBA ballad known for its hopeful lyrics and melodic simplicity, famously featured in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!"
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E.
Sinnerman
"Sinnerman" is a powerful, extended jazz-gospel song by Nina Simone, renowned for its driving piano, intense vocals, and use in numerous films and television shows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: A Change Is Gonna Come Description of subject: "A Change Is Gonna Come" is a landmark 1964 soul song by Sam Cooke that became an enduring anthem of the American civil rights movement.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
subject linked to:
album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
subject linked to:
album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
subject linked to:
From the Fires (2017)
subject linked to:
Samuel Cook
linked to: A Change Is Gonna Come
linked to: A Change Is Gonna Come
linked to: A Change Is Gonna Come