Epic Records
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Epic Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting numerous globally successful artists across pop, R&B, and rock music.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epic Records canonical | 1,435 |
| Epic Records (label) | 1 |
| Epic Records (via REO Speedwagon) | 1 |
| Epic Records Japan | 1 |
| Epic/Sony Records | 1 |
| MJJ Music is an imprint of Epic Records | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206124 — 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: Epic Records Context triple: [Mariah Carey, recordLabel, Epic Records]
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A.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, founded in 1942 and based in Los Angeles, known for signing iconic artists across jazz, pop, and rock.
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B.
MCA Records
MCA Records was a major American record label known for releasing music by prominent rock, pop, and country artists throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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C.
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting many globally successful rock, hip-hop, and pop artists.
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D.
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is a major American record label, one of the oldest in the world, known for signing and releasing music by many influential and commercially successful artists across diverse genres.
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E.
Republic Records
Republic Records is a major American record label known for representing a wide range of prominent artists across pop, rock, hip-hop, and other genres.
- 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: Epic Records Target entity description: Epic Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting numerous globally successful artists across pop, R&B, and rock music.
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A.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, founded in 1942 and based in Los Angeles, known for signing iconic artists across jazz, pop, and rock.
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B.
MCA Records
MCA Records was a major American record label known for releasing music by prominent rock, pop, and country artists throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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C.
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting many globally successful rock, hip-hop, and pop artists.
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D.
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is a major American record label, one of the oldest in the world, known for signing and releasing music by many influential and commercially successful artists across diverse genres.
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E.
Republic Records
Republic Records is a major American record label known for representing a wide range of prominent artists across pop, rock, hip-hop, and other genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Epic Records Description of subject: Epic Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting numerous globally successful artists across pop, R&B, and rock music.
Referenced by (1,440)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.