Perpetual Change
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"Perpetual Change" is a progressive rock song by the band Yes, known for its complex structure, shifting time signatures, and philosophical lyrics, and appearing as a key track on their 1971 release *The Yes Album*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perpetual Change canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5692232 — 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: Perpetual Change Context triple: [The Yes Album, hasPart, Perpetual Change]
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A.
A Time of Changes
A Time of Changes is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of identity, emotional repression, and social taboo in a distant future society.
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B.
Lost Change
"Lost Change" is the debut solo album by will.i.am, blending hip hop, soul, and experimental sounds and originally released as a soundtrack to a 2001 film of the same name.
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C.
Some Changes
"Some Changes" is a poetry collection by American writer and activist June Jordan that reflects her incisive commentary on race, gender, and social justice.
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D.
One New Change
One New Change is a major modern retail and office complex in the City of London, known for its shopping centre and rooftop terrace with views of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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E.
Arte del Cambio
Arte del Cambio was a prominent Florentine guild of money changers and bankers that played a key role in the city’s medieval commercial and financial life.
- 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: Perpetual Change Target entity description: "Perpetual Change" is a progressive rock song by the band Yes, known for its complex structure, shifting time signatures, and philosophical lyrics, and appearing as a key track on their 1971 release *The Yes Album*.
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A.
A Time of Changes
A Time of Changes is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of identity, emotional repression, and social taboo in a distant future society.
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B.
Lost Change
"Lost Change" is the debut solo album by will.i.am, blending hip hop, soul, and experimental sounds and originally released as a soundtrack to a 2001 film of the same name.
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C.
Some Changes
"Some Changes" is a poetry collection by American writer and activist June Jordan that reflects her incisive commentary on race, gender, and social justice.
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D.
One New Change
One New Change is a major modern retail and office complex in the City of London, known for its shopping centre and rooftop terrace with views of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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E.
Arte del Cambio
Arte del Cambio was a prominent Florentine guild of money changers and bankers that played a key role in the city’s medieval commercial and financial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
progressive rock song
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song ⓘ |
| album | The Yes Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Chris Squire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jon Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer |
Bill Bruford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Squire NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Howe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Kaye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasBassStyle | melodic bass lines ⓘ |
| hasDrumStyle | syncopated drumming ⓘ |
| hasGuitarStyle | complex riff-based guitar work ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
change and transformation
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perception of reality ⓘ philosophical lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
complex structure
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shifting time signatures ⓘ |
| hasNotableSection | simultaneous overlay of two different song sections ⓘ |
| hasPart |
instrumental sections
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polyrhythmic overlay section ⓘ vocal sections ⓘ |
| hasTimeSignature | multiple time signatures ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | multi-part vocal harmonies ⓘ |
| includedInTourSetlist | Yes live performances in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| isKeyTrackOn | The Yes Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Jon Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedOn | Atlantic Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The Yes Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Eddie Offord
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| recordedFor | The Yes Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | Advision Studios, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseType | album track ⓘ |
| trackPositionOnAlbum | final track on The Yes Album ⓘ |
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: Perpetual Change Description of subject: "Perpetual Change" is a progressive rock song by the band Yes, known for its complex structure, shifting time signatures, and philosophical lyrics, and appearing as a key track on their 1971 release *The Yes Album*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.