Illegal Records
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Illegal Records was an independent British record label known for releasing early material by bands such as The Police.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illegal Records canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696678 — 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: Illegal Records Context triple: [The Police, recordLabel, Illegal Records]
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A.
Justice Records
Justice Records is an independent music label known for releasing a diverse range of recordings across genres such as jazz, blues, and world music.
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B.
Permanent Record
Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s memoir detailing his role in exposing global mass surveillance programs and the personal, ethical, and political consequences of his whistleblowing.
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C.
Leaving Records
Leaving Records is an independent Los Angeles-based record label known for its experimental, beat-driven, and genre-blurring releases, particularly within the underground hip-hop and electronic scenes.
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D.
Essential Records
Essential Records is a music label best known for releasing progressive rock and related artists, including works by the band Yes.
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E.
The Record
The Record is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American indie rock supergroup boygenius, featuring Phoebe Bridgers alongside Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus.
- 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: Illegal Records Target entity description: Illegal Records was an independent British record label known for releasing early material by bands such as The Police.
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A.
Justice Records
Justice Records is an independent music label known for releasing a diverse range of recordings across genres such as jazz, blues, and world music.
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B.
Permanent Record
Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s memoir detailing his role in exposing global mass surveillance programs and the personal, ethical, and political consequences of his whistleblowing.
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C.
Leaving Records
Leaving Records is an independent Los Angeles-based record label known for its experimental, beat-driven, and genre-blurring releases, particularly within the underground hip-hop and electronic scenes.
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D.
Essential Records
Essential Records is a music label best known for releasing progressive rock and related artists, including works by the band Yes.
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E.
The Record
The Record is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American indie rock supergroup boygenius, featuring Phoebe Bridgers alongside Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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record label ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British new wave scene
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British punk scene ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent label ⓘ |
| category | British independent record labels ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | vinyl records ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
new wave music
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punk rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasType | commercial enterprise ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| languageOfReleases | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio recordings ⓘ |
| notableFor | releasing early material by The Police ⓘ |
| operatedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| primaryMarket |
Europe
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| product |
albums
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phonograph records ⓘ singles ⓘ |
| releasedMaterialFor | The Police ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Illegal Records Description of subject: Illegal Records was an independent British record label known for releasing early material by bands such as The Police.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.