United Records
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United Records was an American independent record label active in the early 1950s, known for releasing blues, jazz, and R&B recordings by artists such as Memphis Slim.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United Records canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9682931 — 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: United Records Context triple: [Memphis Slim, recordLabel, United Records]
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A.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is a major American record label known for its influential roster of artists across genres such as rock, pop, R&B, and hip-hop.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
CBS Records
CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
- 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: United Records Target entity description: United Records was an American independent record label active in the early 1950s, known for releasing blues, jazz, and R&B recordings by artists such as Memphis Slim.
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A.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is a major American record label known for its influential roster of artists across genres such as rock, pop, R&B, and hip-hop.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
CBS Records
CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
| basedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionFormat |
45 rpm records
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78 rpm records ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableArtist | Memphis Slim ⓘ |
| product |
music recordings
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phonograph records ⓘ |
| recordLabelType | independent ⓘ |
| specializedIn |
African-American popular music
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urban blues ⓘ |
| 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: United Records Description of subject: United Records was an American independent record label active in the early 1950s, known for releasing blues, jazz, and R&B recordings by artists such as Memphis Slim.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.