Tabu Records
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Tabu Records was an American R&B and funk record label best known for releasing influential 1980s soul and funk albums by artists such as The S.O.S. Band, Alexander O’Neal, and Cherrelle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tabu Records canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5577679 — 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)
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Target entity: Tabu Records Context triple: [Didn’t Mean to Turn You On, recordLabel, Tabu Records]
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A.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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B.
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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C.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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D.
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records was a prominent Australian independent record label known for signing influential rock and pop acts from the 1970s onward.
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E.
T-Neck Records
T-Neck Records was an independent record label founded and owned by The Isley Brothers, used primarily to release and control their own music catalog.
- 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: Tabu Records Target entity description: Tabu Records was an American R&B and funk record label best known for releasing influential 1980s soul and funk albums by artists such as The S.O.S. Band, Alexander O’Neal, and Cherrelle.
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A.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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B.
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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C.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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D.
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records was a prominent Australian independent record label known for signing influential rock and pop acts from the 1970s onward.
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E.
T-Neck Records
T-Neck Records was an independent record label founded and owned by The Isley Brothers, used primarily to release and control their own music catalog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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R&B record label ⓘ funk record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
contemporary R&B
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urban contemporary ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionFormat |
audio cassettes
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compact discs ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| focus | African-American music ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableArtist |
Alexander O’Neal
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Cherrelle ⓘ The S.O.S. Band ⓘ
linked to:
S.O.S. Band
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| notableFor |
releasing influential 1980s funk albums
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releasing influential 1980s soul albums ⓘ |
| notableReleaseArtist |
Alexander O’Neal
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Cherrelle ⓘ The S.O.S. Band ⓘ
linked to:
S.O.S. Band
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| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| product |
albums
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music recordings ⓘ singles ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
international R&B audiences ⓘ |
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: Tabu Records Description of subject: Tabu Records was an American R&B and funk record label best known for releasing influential 1980s soul and funk albums by artists such as The S.O.S. Band, Alexander O’Neal, and Cherrelle.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.