Profile Records
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Profile Records was an influential American hip hop record label best known for releasing landmark albums by artists such as Run-D.M.C. and contributing significantly to the genre’s rise in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Profile Records canonical | 35 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4447063 — 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: Profile Records Context triple: [Raising Hell, recordLabel, Profile Records]
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A.
Track Records
Track Records was a British independent record label best known for releasing influential rock music in the late 1960s, including albums by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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B.
Chess Records
Chess Records was a pioneering American record label that became famous for shaping Chicago blues and early rock and roll through artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Chuck Berry.
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C.
Players
Players is a 1977 novel by Don DeLillo that follows a disaffected Wall Street couple whose lives become entangled with a terrorist conspiracy, exploring themes of alienation, media, and modern urban life.
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D.
Real World Records
Real World Records is an independent record label known for promoting world music and diverse international artists.
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E.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
- 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: Profile Records Target entity description: Profile Records was an influential American hip hop record label best known for releasing landmark albums by artists such as Run-D.M.C. and contributing significantly to the genre’s rise in the 1980s.
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A.
Track Records
Track Records was a British independent record label best known for releasing influential rock music in the late 1960s, including albums by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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B.
Chess Records
Chess Records was a pioneering American record label that became famous for shaping Chicago blues and early rock and roll through artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Chuck Berry.
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C.
Players
Players is a 1977 novel by Don DeLillo that follows a disaffected Wall Street couple whose lives become entangled with a terrorist conspiracy, exploring themes of alienation, media, and modern urban life.
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D.
Real World Records
Real World Records is an independent record label known for promoting world music and diverse international artists.
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E.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
- 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: Profile Records Description of subject: Profile Records was an influential American hip hop record label best known for releasing landmark albums by artists such as Run-D.M.C. and contributing significantly to the genre’s rise in the 1980s.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Girl Next Door
subject linked to:
Walk This Way with Run-DMC
subject linked to:
It’s Tricky
subject linked to:
Down with the King