Herald Records
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Herald Records was an American independent record label active in the 1950s and early 1960s, known for releasing influential blues, R&B, and early rock and roll recordings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herald Records canonical | 3 |
| Holiday Records | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10547852 — 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: Herald Records Context triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, recordLabel, Herald Records]
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A.
Harvest Records
Harvest Records is a British record label best known for releasing progressive rock and experimental music, particularly in the 1970s.
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B.
Horizon Records
Horizon Records is a music label known for releasing recordings by acclaimed guitarist Laurence Juber and other artists across jazz, folk, and acoustic genres.
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C.
Barclay Records
Barclay Records is a historic French record label known for signing prominent Francophone artists and contributing significantly to French popular music.
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D.
Shelter Records
Shelter Records was an American record label known for signing influential rock artists in the 1970s, including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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E.
Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records was a prominent American jazz and blues record label of the 1930s and 1940s, known for influential recordings by major blues and swing artists.
- 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: Herald Records Target entity description: Herald Records was an American independent record label active in the 1950s and early 1960s, known for releasing influential blues, R&B, and early rock and roll recordings.
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A.
Harvest Records
Harvest Records is a British record label best known for releasing progressive rock and experimental music, particularly in the 1970s.
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B.
Horizon Records
Horizon Records is a music label known for releasing recordings by acclaimed guitarist Laurence Juber and other artists across jazz, folk, and acoustic genres.
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C.
Barclay Records
Barclay Records is a historic French record label known for signing prominent Francophone artists and contributing significantly to French popular music.
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D.
Shelter Records
Shelter Records was an American record label known for signing influential rock artists in the 1970s, including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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E.
Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records was a prominent American jazz and blues record label of the 1930s and 1940s, known for influential recordings by major blues and swing artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1950s
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early 1960s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| businessModel | independent label ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionFormat | vinyl records ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II music era ⓘ |
| focus |
African-American popular music
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blues and R&B artists ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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blues ⓘ early rock and roll ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor |
releasing influential R&B recordings
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releasing influential blues recordings ⓘ releasing influential early rock and roll recordings ⓘ |
| product |
albums
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phonograph records ⓘ singles ⓘ |
| 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: Herald Records Description of subject: Herald Records was an American independent record label active in the 1950s and early 1960s, known for releasing influential blues, R&B, and early rock and roll recordings.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Herald Records