Contemporary Records
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Contemporary Records is a prominent American jazz record label known for its high-fidelity recordings and influential West Coast jazz releases in the 1950s and 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Contemporary Records canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11591920 — 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: Contemporary Records Context triple: [Lennie Niehaus, recordLabel, Contemporary Records]
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A.
Modern Records
Modern Records was an American independent record label known for its influential rhythm and blues and early rock and roll releases in the mid-20th century.
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B.
20th Century Records
20th Century Records was a record label associated with 20th Century Fox that released popular film soundtracks and other music, including the original Star Wars score.
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C.
One Records
One Records is a music label known for releasing hip-hop projects, including work by rapper Fashawn.
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D.
Homestead Records
Homestead Records was an influential American independent record label active in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for releasing pioneering underground rock, punk, and noise music.
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E.
Proper Records
Proper Records is an independent music label known for releasing and distributing albums by artists such as blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.
- 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: Contemporary Records Target entity description: Contemporary Records is a prominent American jazz record label known for its high-fidelity recordings and influential West Coast jazz releases in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A.
Modern Records
Modern Records was an American independent record label known for its influential rhythm and blues and early rock and roll releases in the mid-20th century.
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B.
20th Century Records
20th Century Records was a record label associated with 20th Century Fox that released popular film soundtracks and other music, including the original Star Wars score.
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C.
One Records
One Records is a music label known for releasing hip-hop projects, including work by rapper Fashawn.
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D.
Homestead Records
Homestead Records was an influential American independent record label active in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for releasing pioneering underground rock, punk, and noise music.
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E.
Proper Records
Proper Records is an independent music label known for releasing and distributing albums by artists such as blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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founder ⓘ jazz record label ⓘ record label ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| catalogIncludes |
bebop
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cool jazz ⓘ small-group jazz recordings ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionArea |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
international ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II jazz ⓘ |
| focus | West Coast jazz scene ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Lester Koenig ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | documenting West Coast jazz in the 1950s and 1960s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
West Coast jazz artists
ⓘ
modern jazz recordings ⓘ |
| location | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| market | jazz listeners ⓘ |
| notableFor |
West Coast jazz
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high-fidelity recordings ⓘ |
| reputation | audiophile-quality sound ⓘ |
| soundQuality | high fidelity ⓘ |
| status | influential jazz label ⓘ |
| style | West Coast jazz sound ⓘ |
| typeOfSound | high-fidelity analog recording ⓘ |
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: Contemporary Records Description of subject: Contemporary Records is a prominent American jazz record label known for its high-fidelity recordings and influential West Coast jazz releases in the 1950s and 1960s.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.