Parents Music Resource Center

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advocacy group non-profit organization

The Parents Music Resource Center was an American advocacy group founded in the 1980s that campaigned for content labeling and restrictions on explicit lyrics in popular music.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Parents Music Resource Center canonical	4
Parents Music Resource Center "Filthy Fifteen" list	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3761218 — 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: Parents Music Resource Center
Context triple: [Tipper Gore, coFounderOf, Parents Music Resource Center]

A. Mom + Pop Music
Mom + Pop Music is an independent record label known for releasing music by artists such as Lucius and other prominent indie acts.
B. Live Music Archive
Live Music Archive is a large online collection of free, legally shared live concert recordings, primarily featuring performances by independent and jam bands.
C. Music and Arts
Music and Arts is an award category of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication that honors outstanding contributions to public understanding of science through musical and artistic works.
D. Our Music
Our Music is a roots reggae album by Jamaican musician Burning Spear, reflecting his signature spiritual and socially conscious style.
E. Music Library
The Music Library is a specialized branch of the Stanford University Libraries that collects, preserves, and provides access to music scores, recordings, and scholarly resources in music and related fields.
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: Parents Music Resource Center
Target entity description: The Parents Music Resource Center was an American advocacy group founded in the 1980s that campaigned for content labeling and restrictions on explicit lyrics in popular music.

A. Mom + Pop Music
Mom + Pop Music is an independent record label known for releasing music by artists such as Lucius and other prominent indie acts.
B. Live Music Archive
Live Music Archive is a large online collection of free, legally shared live concert recordings, primarily featuring performances by independent and jam bands.
C. Music and Arts
Music and Arts is an award category of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication that honors outstanding contributions to public understanding of science through musical and artistic works.
D. Our Music
Our Music is a roots reggae album by Jamaican musician Burning Spear, reflecting his signature spiritual and socially conscious style.
E. Music Library
The Music Library is a specialized branch of the Stanford University Libraries that collects, preserves, and provides access to music scores, recordings, and scholarly resources in music and related fields.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	advocacy group ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ
activity	lobbying the U.S. Congress ⓘ publishing lists of songs with explicit content ⓘ testifying at Senate hearings ⓘ
advocatedFor	Parental Advisory label system ⓘ linked to: ESRB
areaServed	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
criticizedFor	moral panic over popular music ⓘ promoting censorship ⓘ threatening artistic freedom ⓘ
dissolved	1990s ⓘ
focus	children’s exposure to explicit content ⓘ media regulation ⓘ music censorship ⓘ
foundedBy	Pam Howar ⓘ Sally Nevius ⓘ Susan Baker ⓘ Tipper Gore ⓘ group of politically connected Washington wives ⓘ
hasAbbreviation	PMRC ⓘ
hasKeyDocument	PMRC testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ⓘ
ideology	social conservatism ⓘ
inception	1985 ⓘ
influenced	Recording Industry Association of America labeling practices ⓘ
location	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
notableEvent	1985 Senate hearing on record labeling ⓘ
notableWork	Parents Music Resource Center "Filthy Fifteen" list ⓘ linked to: Parents Music Resource Center
opposed	occult and drug-related themes in music ⓘ sexually explicit lyrics in music ⓘ violent lyrics in music ⓘ
opposedBy	Dee Snider ⓘ Frank Zappa ⓘ John Denver ⓘ musicians and civil liberties groups ⓘ
purpose	advocating parental advisory labels on music ⓘ campaigning against explicit lyrics in popular music ⓘ promoting content labeling for music recordings ⓘ
relatedTo	Parental Advisory label ⓘ Recording Industry Association of America ⓘ linked to: RIAA music censorship in the United States ⓘ
subjectOf	controversy over freedom of speech in music ⓘ
timePeriod	1980s ⓘ early 1990s ⓘ
usedMedium	press conferences ⓘ printed reports ⓘ public campaigns ⓘ

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

Tipper Gore → coFounderOf → Parents Music Resource Center ⓘ

Tipper Gore → coFounded → Parents Music Resource Center ⓘ

subject linked to: Tipper

Parents Music Resource Center → notableWork → Parents Music Resource Center "Filthy Fifteen" list ⓘ

linked to: Parents Music Resource Center

Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society → relatedTo → Parents Music Resource Center ⓘ

Darling Nikki → associatedWith → Parents Music Resource Center ⓘ

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Referenced by (5)

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