Wooden Nickel Records
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Wooden Nickel Records was an American record label best known for releasing the early albums of the rock band Styx in the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wooden Nickel Records canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696891 — 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: Wooden Nickel Records Context triple: [Styx, recordLabel, Wooden Nickel Records]
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A.
Wind-up Records
Wind-up Records is an American independent record label known for signing and promoting alternative rock and post-grunge bands in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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B.
Silvertone Records
Silvertone Records is a British record label known for signing influential alternative and rock acts, and has operated under major music groups including Bertelsmann Music Group.
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C.
Aristocrat Records
Aristocrat Records was a late-1940s Chicago-based independent blues and jazz label that helped launch the recording career of Muddy Waters and later evolved into Chess Records.
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D.
Goldwax Records
Goldwax Records was a 1960s Memphis-based soul label known for releasing influential Southern soul recordings by artists such as James Carr and O.V. Wright.
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E.
Cotillion Records
Cotillion Records was an American subsidiary label of Atlantic Records known for releasing influential R&B, soul, and disco music in the 1960s–1980s.
- 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: Wooden Nickel Records Target entity description: Wooden Nickel Records was an American record label best known for releasing the early albums of the rock band Styx in the 1970s.
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A.
Wind-up Records
Wind-up Records is an American independent record label known for signing and promoting alternative rock and post-grunge bands in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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B.
Silvertone Records
Silvertone Records is a British record label known for signing influential alternative and rock acts, and has operated under major music groups including Bertelsmann Music Group.
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C.
Aristocrat Records
Aristocrat Records was a late-1940s Chicago-based independent blues and jazz label that helped launch the recording career of Muddy Waters and later evolved into Chess Records.
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D.
Goldwax Records
Goldwax Records was a 1960s Memphis-based soul label known for releasing influential Southern soul recordings by artists such as James Carr and O.V. Wright.
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E.
Cotillion Records
Cotillion Records was an American subsidiary label of Atlantic Records known for releasing influential R&B, soul, and disco music in the 1960s–1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedBand | Styx ⓘ |
| businessModel |
music publishing
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record production ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creativeWorkTypeReleased |
single
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studio album ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | physical media ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| focus | rock artists ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
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rock music ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| medium | phonograph record ⓘ |
| notableArtist | Styx ⓘ |
| notableFor | releasing early albums by Styx ⓘ |
| primaryFormat | LP ⓘ |
| product |
albums
ⓘ
vinyl records ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | independent record label ⓘ |
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: Wooden Nickel Records Description of subject: Wooden Nickel Records was an American record label best known for releasing the early albums of the rock band Styx in the 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.