EMI America Records
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EMI America Records was a U.S.-based subsidiary label of EMI that released pop, rock, and other mainstream music primarily during the late 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EMI America Records canonical | 32 |
| EMI America | 3 |
| EMI USA | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4324012 — 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: EMI America Records Context triple: [Do You, recordLabel, EMI America Records]
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A.
EMI Records
EMI Records was a major British record label and music company known for its influential roster of artists and significant impact on the global recording industry.
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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.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: EMI America Records Target entity description: EMI America Records was a U.S.-based subsidiary label of EMI that released pop, rock, and other mainstream music primarily during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
EMI Records
EMI Records was a major British record label and music company known for its influential roster of artists and significant impact on the global recording industry.
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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.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| catalogScope |
mainstream artists
ⓘ
pop artists ⓘ rock artists ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distribution | EMI ⓘ |
| formatReleased |
cassette tapes
ⓘ
compact discs ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| genre |
mainstream music
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| labelType | subsidiary label ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| marketFocus |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableEra |
1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| ownedBy | EMI ⓘ |
| parentCompany | EMI ⓘ |
| partOf | EMI Group label structure ⓘ |
| product | recordings ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
EMI USA
ⓘ
linked to:
EMI America Records
|
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: EMI America Records Description of subject: EMI America Records was a U.S.-based subsidiary label of EMI that released pop, rock, and other mainstream music primarily during the late 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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linked to: EMI America Records
subject linked to:
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linked to: EMI America Records
subject linked to:
studio album Barking at Airplanes
linked to: EMI America Records
subject linked to:
Queensrÿche – Hear in the Now Frontier
linked to: EMI America Records
linked to: EMI America Records