His Master’s Voice
E108008
His Master’s Voice was a historic British record label and retail brand, famous for its iconic dog-and-gramophone logo and influential early 20th-century classical and popular music recordings.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| His Master’s Voice canonical | 20 |
| His Master's Voice | 3 |
| His Master’s Voice catalog | 1 |
| His Master’s Voice dog-and-gramophone image | 1 |
| His Master’s Voice trademark | 1 |
| La Voix de son Maître | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T921758 — 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: His Master’s Voice Context triple: [EMI Classics, predecessor, His Master’s Voice]
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A.
Whisper
Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition system by OpenAI that transcribes and translates spoken language with high accuracy across many languages.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
Chain Home Low
Chain Home Low was a British World War II radar system designed to detect low-flying aircraft that could evade the main Chain Home radar network.
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D.
The Man of a Thousand Voices
The Man of a Thousand Voices is the famous nickname of Mel Blanc, the legendary voice actor behind many iconic Looney Tunes and other cartoon characters.
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E.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
- 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: His Master’s Voice Target entity description: His Master’s Voice was a historic British record label and retail brand, famous for its iconic dog-and-gramophone logo and influential early 20th-century classical and popular music recordings.
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A.
Whisper
Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition system by OpenAI that transcribes and translates spoken language with high accuracy across many languages.
-
B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
-
C.
Chain Home Low
Chain Home Low was a British World War II radar system designed to detect low-flying aircraft that could evade the main Chain Home radar network.
-
D.
The Man of a Thousand Voices
The Man of a Thousand Voices is the famous nickname of Mel Blanc, the legendary voice actor behind many iconic Looney Tunes and other cartoon characters.
-
E.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
record label
ⓘ
retail brand ⓘ trademark ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
RCA Victor
ⓘ
Victor Talking Machine Company ⓘ |
| brandingElement |
HMV initials
ⓘ
dog-and-gramophone image ⓘ |
| brandUsedBy | HMV Group ⓘ |
| brandUsedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| category |
British record labels
ⓘ
audio trademarks ⓘ music retailers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
British Empire
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
classical music
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasIconicStatus | yes ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest global record brands ⓘ |
| industry |
music industry
ⓘ
retail ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of recorded classical music market
ⓘ
early popular music recording industry ⓘ |
| logoBasedOnPainting | His Master’s Voice ⓘ |
| logoDepicts | dog listening to a gramophone ⓘ |
| logoDogName | Nipper ⓘ |
| logoPaintingArtist | Francis Barraud ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
HMV
ⓘ
linked to:
HMV Group
|
| mediaFormat |
shellac discs
ⓘ
vinyl records ⓘ |
| notableFor | dog-and-gramophone logo ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
The Gramophone Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Gramophone Company
|
| productType |
gramophone records
ⓘ
phonographs ⓘ record players ⓘ recorded music ⓘ |
| relatedBrand | HMV retail stores ⓘ |
| successor | EMI ⓘ |
| usedOn |
advertising materials
ⓘ
record labels ⓘ shopfronts ⓘ |
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: His Master’s Voice Description of subject: His Master’s Voice was a historic British record label and retail brand, famous for its iconic dog-and-gramophone logo and influential early 20th-century classical and popular music recordings.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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"Bell Bottom Blues"
subject linked to:
"Moon River" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1961
linked to: His Master’s Voice