Ric-Tic Records
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Ric-Tic Records was a 1960s Detroit-based soul label known for releasing influential records by artists such as Edwin Starr before being absorbed into Motown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ric-Tic Records canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11305247 — 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: Ric-Tic Records Context triple: [Edwin Starr, recordLabel, Ric-Tic Records]
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A.
Pookie Records
Pookie Records is an independent music label best known for releasing work by the R&B/neo-soul supergroup Lucy Pearl.
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B.
T-Neck Records
T-Neck Records was an independent record label founded and owned by The Isley Brothers, used primarily to release and control their own music catalog.
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C.
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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D.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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E.
Octone Records
Octone Records is the record label known for launching and releasing early music by the pop-rock band Maroon 5.
- 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: Ric-Tic Records Target entity description: Ric-Tic Records was a 1960s Detroit-based soul label known for releasing influential records by artists such as Edwin Starr before being absorbed into Motown.
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A.
Pookie Records
Pookie Records is an independent music label best known for releasing work by the R&B/neo-soul supergroup Lucy Pearl.
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B.
T-Neck Records
T-Neck Records was an independent record label founded and owned by The Isley Brothers, used primarily to release and control their own music catalog.
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C.
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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D.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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E.
Octone Records
Octone Records is the record label known for launching and releasing early music by the pop-rock band Maroon 5.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
ⓘ
record label ⓘ soul music label ⓘ |
| absorbedBy |
Motown Records
ⓘ
linked to:
Motown
|
| absorbedInto |
Motown catalog
ⓘ
linked to:
Motown
|
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Detroit soul sound
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit soul
|
| basedInRegion | Detroit music scene ⓘ |
| city | Detroit ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | pre-1970 Motown era ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| influencedScene | Northern soul movement in the UK ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Detroit soul releases
ⓘ
competition with Motown Records ⓘ releasing records by Edwin Starr ⓘ |
| location |
Detroit, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
| notableArtist |
Edwin Starr
ⓘ
Freddie Gorman ⓘ J. J. Barnes ⓘ Lorri Rudolph ⓘ The Fantastic Four ⓘ
linked to:
Fantastic Four
|
| parentCompany |
Motown Records
ⓘ
linked to:
Motown
|
| product |
singles
ⓘ
soul music recordings ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| style | Northern soul ⓘ |
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: Ric-Tic Records Description of subject: Ric-Tic Records was a 1960s Detroit-based soul label known for releasing influential records by artists such as Edwin Starr before being absorbed into Motown.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.