Believe
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"Believe" is a 1998 dance-pop song by Cher that became a global hit and is widely credited with popularizing the use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in mainstream music.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Believe canonical | 4 |
| Believe (Cher music video) | 2 |
| Believe by Cher | 1 |
| “Believe” | 1 |
| “Finale (Believe)” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972340 — 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: Believe Context triple: [Cher, notableWork, Believe]
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A.
Believe
"Believe" is a song featured on the album *I Remember Me* by Jennifer Hudson.
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B.
Believe
"Believe" is Justin Bieber's third studio album, marking his transition from teen pop to a more mature, R&B-influenced sound and spawning hits like "Boyfriend."
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C.
When You Believe
"When You Believe" is a Grammy-winning duet by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, originally recorded for the animated film "The Prince of Egypt" and later featured on Houston's album "My Love Is Your Love."
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D.
Harder to Believe
"Harder to Believe" is a song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful pop-rock style and emotive vocals.
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E.
Belief (song)
"Belief" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful vocals and introspective lyrics.
- 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: Believe Target entity description: "Believe" is a 1998 dance-pop song by Cher that became a global hit and is widely credited with popularizing the use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in mainstream music.
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A.
Believe
"Believe" is a song featured on the album *I Remember Me* by Jennifer Hudson.
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B.
Believe
"Believe" is Justin Bieber's third studio album, marking his transition from teen pop to a more mature, R&B-influenced sound and spawning hits like "Boyfriend."
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C.
When You Believe
"When You Believe" is a Grammy-winning duet by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, originally recorded for the animated film "The Prince of Egypt" and later featured on Houston's album "My Love Is Your Love."
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D.
Harder to Believe
"Harder to Believe" is a song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful pop-rock style and emotive vocals.
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E.
Belief (song)
"Belief" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful vocals and introspective lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Cher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| certification |
multi-platinum in the United Kingdom
ⓘ
platinum in the United States ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
number one in more than 20 countries
ⓘ
number one on the UK Singles Chart ⓘ number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | late 1990s ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
Eurodance
ⓘ
dance-pop ⓘ electropop ⓘ |
| hasBPM | 133 ⓘ |
| hasHook | Do you believe in life after love? ⓘ |
| hasKey | F-sharp major ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo |
Believe (Cher music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Believe
|
| hasTempo | fast ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Believe (Cher album) ⓘ |
| influenced |
mainstream adoption of pitch-correction effects
ⓘ
subsequent pop and dance music production ⓘ |
| label |
WEA
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:59 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Nigel Dick ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in mainstream music ⓘ |
| partOf | Cher discography ⓘ |
| performer | Cher ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Rawling
ⓘ
Mark Taylor ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1998 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-10-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| sales | over 11 million copies worldwide ⓘ |
| songwriter |
Brian Higgins
ⓘ
Cher ⓘ Matthew Gray ⓘ Paul Barry ⓘ Steven Torch ⓘ Stuart McLennen ⓘ Timothy Powell ⓘ
linked to:
Tim Powell
|
| titleTrackOf | Believe (Cher album) ⓘ |
| useOfTechnique | Auto-Tune ⓘ |
| vocalist | Cher ⓘ |
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: Believe Description of subject: "Believe" is a 1998 dance-pop song by Cher that became a global hit and is widely credited with popularizing the use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in mainstream music.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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