Apollo Records
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Apollo Records was an American independent record label best known for its influential gospel and rhythm and blues recordings in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apollo Records canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1862175 — 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: Apollo Records Context triple: [Mahalia Jackson, recordLabel, Apollo Records]
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A.
King Records
King Records was an influential American independent record label, particularly known for its R&B, country, and early rock and roll releases in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Savoy Records
Savoy Records is a pioneering American jazz and blues record label renowned for recording influential bebop artists such as Charlie Parker.
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C.
Amy Records
Amy Records was an American record label active in the 1960s, known for releasing pop and rock singles by artists such as Del Shannon.
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D.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a major American record label known for releasing influential recordings across genres such as pop, rock, jazz, and R&B since the mid-20th century.
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E.
Kent Records
Kent Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential blues and R&B recordings, including early work by legendary guitarist and singer B.B. King.
- 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: Apollo Records Target entity description: Apollo Records was an American independent record label best known for its influential gospel and rhythm and blues recordings in the mid-20th century.
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A.
King Records
King Records was an influential American independent record label, particularly known for its R&B, country, and early rock and roll releases in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Savoy Records
Savoy Records is a pioneering American jazz and blues record label renowned for recording influential bebop artists such as Charlie Parker.
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C.
Amy Records
Amy Records was an American record label active in the 1960s, known for releasing pop and rock singles by artists such as Del Shannon.
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D.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a major American record label known for releasing influential recordings across genres such as pop, rock, jazz, and R&B since the mid-20th century.
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E.
Kent Records
Kent Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential blues and R&B recordings, including early work by legendary guitarist and singer B.B. King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York
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New York City ⓘ |
| catalogIncludes |
R&B vocal groups
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blues pianists ⓘ gospel vocal groups ⓘ solo gospel singers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionFormat | shellac records ⓘ |
| focus | African-American music ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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gospel music ⓘ jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
contributed to development of R&B in the 1940s and 1950s
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early documenter of postwar gospel ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
modern gospel
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rhythm and blues ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locationOfHeadquarters | Harlem ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential gospel recordings
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influential rhythm and blues recordings ⓘ |
| product |
78 rpm records
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phonograph records ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| signedArtist |
Champion Jack Dupree
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Dinah Washington ⓘ Doc Pomus ⓘ Mahalia Jackson ⓘ The Dixie Hummingbirds ⓘ The Larks ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
African-American audiences
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American record-buying public ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Apollo Records Description of subject: Apollo Records was an American independent record label best known for its influential gospel and rhythm and blues recordings in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.