Cobra Records
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Cobra Records was a Chicago-based independent blues label active in the 1950s, known for recording influential electric blues artists such as Magic Sam and Otis Rush.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cobra Records canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378553 — 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: Cobra Records Context triple: [Magic Sam, recordLabel, Cobra Records]
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A.
Coconut Records
Coconut Records is the indie pop music project of actor and musician Jason Schwartzman, known for its melodic, lo-fi albums and soundtrack-friendly songs.
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B.
Alligator Records
Alligator Records is a renowned independent American blues and roots music label known for championing influential artists and preserving traditional blues styles.
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C.
Brando Records
Brando Records is an independent music label known for working with alternative rock acts such as Blue October.
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D.
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an influential American jazz record label, especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, known for recording major artists such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and Chet Baker.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cobra Records Target entity description: Cobra Records was a Chicago-based independent blues label active in the 1950s, known for recording influential electric blues artists such as Magic Sam and Otis Rush.
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A.
Coconut Records
Coconut Records is the indie pop music project of actor and musician Jason Schwartzman, known for its melodic, lo-fi albums and soundtrack-friendly songs.
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B.
Alligator Records
Alligator Records is a renowned independent American blues and roots music label known for championing influential artists and preserving traditional blues styles.
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C.
Brando Records
Brando Records is an independent music label known for working with alternative rock acts such as Blue October.
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D.
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an influential American jazz record label, especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, known for recording major artists such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and Chet Baker.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent label ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago
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linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionFocus | regional ⓘ |
| foundedInDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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electric blues ⓘ |
| independentFrom | major record labels ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Chicago blues scene
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electric blues ⓘ later rock and blues musicians ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping define the West Side Chicago blues sound
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recording influential Chicago electric blues artists ⓘ |
| location | Chicago ⓘ |
| locationType |
West Side of Chicago
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linked to:
West Side, Chicago
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| notableRecording |
early recordings of Magic Sam
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early recordings of Otis Rush ⓘ |
| recordedArtist |
Betty Everett
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Buddy Guy ⓘ Harold Burrage ⓘ Ike Turner ⓘ Magic Sam ⓘ Otis Rush ⓘ Shakey Jake Harris ⓘ Sunnyland Slim ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| style | Chicago blues ⓘ |
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: Cobra Records Description of subject: Cobra Records was a Chicago-based independent blues label active in the 1950s, known for recording influential electric blues artists such as Magic Sam and Otis Rush.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.