Epitaph Records
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Epitaph Records is an independent American record label, founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, known primarily for its roster of punk rock and alternative bands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epitaph Records canonical | 84 |
| Epitaph Records (Europe) | 1 |
| Epitaph Records LLC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926473 — 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: Epitaph Records Context triple: [Weezer, recordLabel, Epitaph Records]
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A.
Matador Records
Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
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B.
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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C.
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records was a British independent record label and music company known for working with rock and metal artists and for its extensive catalog and reissue operations.
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D.
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is an American independent Christian rock and alternative music label known for launching and supporting numerous influential bands and artists in the Christian and mainstream scenes.
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E.
Goner Records
Goner Records is an independent record label and record store based in Memphis, Tennessee, known for releasing garage rock, punk, and lo-fi artists such as Ty Segall.
- 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: Epitaph Records Target entity description: Epitaph Records is an independent American record label, founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, known primarily for its roster of punk rock and alternative bands.
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A.
Matador Records
Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
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B.
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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C.
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records was a British independent record label and music company known for working with rock and metal artists and for its extensive catalog and reissue operations.
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D.
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is an American independent Christian rock and alternative music label known for launching and supporting numerous influential bands and artists in the Christian and mainstream scenes.
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E.
Goner Records
Goner Records is an independent record label and record store based in Memphis, Tennessee, known for releasing garage rock, punk, and lo-fi artists such as Ty Segall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Epitaph Records Description of subject: Epitaph Records is an independent American record label, founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, known primarily for its roster of punk rock and alternative bands.
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Epitaph Records
subject linked to:
Bad Religion
linked to: Epitaph Records
subject linked to:
Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals