Live at the Apollo

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Rhythm and blues album live album soul album

Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.

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Label	Occurrences
Live at the Apollo canonical	5
Live at the Apollo (1962) with James Brown	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1952188 — 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: Live at the Apollo
Context triple: [James Brown, notableAlbum, Live at the Apollo]

A. Live at the Palace
Live at the Palace is a posthumously released live album by Blind Melon capturing one of the band’s energetic performances during their 1990s heyday.
B. Live at the Regal
Live at the Regal is a landmark 1965 live blues album by B.B. King, widely celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on blues and rock guitarists.
C. Amateur Night at the Apollo
Amateur Night at the Apollo is a legendary live talent competition at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, famous for launching the careers of numerous African American performers and shaping American popular entertainment.
D. The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
E. LSO Live
LSO Live is the in-house record label of the London Symphony Orchestra, known for releasing high-quality live concert recordings by leading conductors and soloists.
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: Live at the Apollo
Target entity description: Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.

A. Live at the Palace
Live at the Palace is a posthumously released live album by Blind Melon capturing one of the band’s energetic performances during their 1990s heyday.
B. Live at the Regal
Live at the Regal is a landmark 1965 live blues album by B.B. King, widely celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on blues and rock guitarists.
C. Amateur Night at the Apollo
Amateur Night at the Apollo is a legendary live talent competition at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, famous for launching the careers of numerous African American performers and shaping American popular entertainment.
D. The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
E. LSO Live
LSO Live is the in-house record label of the London Symphony Orchestra, known for releasing high-quality live concert recordings by leading conductors and soloists.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Rhythm and blues album ⓘ live album ⓘ soul album ⓘ
artist	James Brown ⓘ
countryOfRecording	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
creditedTo	James Brown and The Famous Flames ⓘ linked to: James Brown and the Famous Flames
criticalReception	widely acclaimed by music critics ⓘ
culturalImpact	demonstrated commercial viability of live albums ⓘ helped establish James Brown as a major star ⓘ
featuresBand	The Famous Flames ⓘ
followedBy	Live at the Apollo, Volume II ⓘ linked to: Live at the Apollo
format	vinyl LP ⓘ
genre	funk ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ soul ⓘ
hasCatalogNumber	King 826 ⓘ
hasChartPerformance	Billboard R&B chart success ⓘ Billboard pop chart top 10 ⓘ
hasReissue	CD reissue ⓘ expanded edition with bonus tracks ⓘ
hasTrack	I Don't Mind ⓘ I'll Go Crazy ⓘ Introduction to James Brown ⓘ linked to: James Brown Lost Someone ⓘ Night Train ⓘ Think ⓘ Try Me ⓘ
includedInList	Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ⓘ
influenced	live funk recordings ⓘ live rock albums ⓘ subsequent live soul recordings ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
length	approximately 31 minutes ⓘ
notableFor	electrifying live performance ⓘ major influence on live recording in popular music ⓘ
originalMedium	mono recording ⓘ
performer	James Brown ⓘ
precededBy	James Brown Studio Albums of early 1960s ⓘ
producer	James Brown ⓘ
recordedAt	Apollo Theater ⓘ
recordedInBorough	Manhattan ⓘ
recordedInCity	New York City ⓘ
recordingDate	1962-10-24 ⓘ
recordingYear	1962 ⓘ
recordLabel	King Records ⓘ
releaseDate	1963-05 ⓘ
releaseYear	1963 ⓘ
sideCount	2 ⓘ

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

James Brown → notableAlbum → Live at the Apollo ⓘ

The Famous Flames → notablePerformance → Live at the Apollo (1962) with James Brown ⓘ

linked to: Live at the Apollo

James Brown and the Famous Flames → notableWork → Live at the Apollo ⓘ

I Don't Mind → includedInAlbum → Live at the Apollo ⓘ

Lost Someone → notableLiveAlbumAppearance → Live at the Apollo ⓘ

Lost Someone → includedOnAlbum → Live at the Apollo ⓘ

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Referenced by (6)

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