Dead Oceans
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Dead Oceans is an independent American record label known for its roster of critically acclaimed indie and alternative artists.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Oceans canonical | 48 |
| Dead Oceans record label | 1 |
| helped establish Dead Oceans as a prominent indie label | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1932573 — 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: Dead Oceans Context triple: [Phoebe Bridgers, recordLabel, Dead Oceans]
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A.
Mammoth Records
Mammoth Records is an American record label known for its roster of alternative and indie rock artists, operating under the umbrella of Disney Music Group.
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B.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
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C.
Frontiers Records
Frontiers Records is an Italian independent record label best known for specializing in hard rock, melodic rock, and heavy metal artists.
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D.
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
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E.
Monkeywrench Records
Monkeywrench Records is the independent record label founded and used by the rock band Pearl Jam to release their music.
- 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: Dead Oceans Target entity description: Dead Oceans is an independent American record label known for its roster of critically acclaimed indie and alternative artists.
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A.
Mammoth Records
Mammoth Records is an American record label known for its roster of alternative and indie rock artists, operating under the umbrella of Disney Music Group.
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B.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
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C.
Frontiers Records
Frontiers Records is an Italian independent record label best known for specializing in hard rock, melodic rock, and heavy metal artists.
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D.
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
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E.
Monkeywrench Records
Monkeywrench Records is the independent record label founded and used by the rock band Pearl Jam to release their music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
ⓘ
independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributor | Secretly Distribution ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ben Swanson
ⓘ
Chris Swanson ⓘ Darius Van Arman ⓘ Jonathan Cargill ⓘ Phil Waldorf ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
alternative rock
ⓘ
experimental music ⓘ indie folk ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
critically acclaimed roster
ⓘ
indie and alternative music releases ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Austin
Bloomington, Indiana ⓘ |
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableArtist |
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Bill Fay ⓘ Bright Eyes ⓘ Destroyer ⓘ Japanese Breakfast ⓘ Kevin Morby ⓘ Khruangbin ⓘ Mitski ⓘ Phoebe Bridgers ⓘ Slowdive ⓘ The Tallest Man on Earth ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Secretly Group ⓘ |
| partOf | Secretly Group label collective ⓘ |
| product |
digital downloads
ⓘ
music recordings ⓘ streaming releases ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| sisterLabel |
Jagjaguwar
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Secretly Canadian ⓘ |
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: Dead Oceans Description of subject: Dead Oceans is an independent American record label known for its roster of critically acclaimed indie and alternative artists.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Better Oblivion Community Center
linked to: Dead Oceans
subject linked to:
Phil Waldorf
linked to: Dead Oceans