Matador Records
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Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matador Records canonical | 36 |
| Matador Records in the United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494998 — 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: Matador Records Context triple: [Pavement, recordLabel, Matador Records]
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A.
Mammoth Records
Mammoth Records is an American record label known for its roster of alternative and indie rock artists, operating under the umbrella of Disney Music Group.
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B.
Monkeywrench Records
Monkeywrench Records is the independent record label founded and used by the rock band Pearl Jam to release their music.
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C.
Tangerine Records
Tangerine Records was an independent record label established in the early 1960s that became a key outlet for Ray Charles’s own recordings and productions.
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D.
Intrada Records
Intrada Records is a specialty record label best known for producing and releasing film and television soundtracks, including many expanded and previously unreleased scores.
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E.
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records was a British independent record label and music company known for working with rock and metal artists and for its extensive catalog and reissue operations.
- 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: Matador Records Target entity description: Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
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A.
Mammoth Records
Mammoth Records is an American record label known for its roster of alternative and indie rock artists, operating under the umbrella of Disney Music Group.
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B.
Monkeywrench Records
Monkeywrench Records is the independent record label founded and used by the rock band Pearl Jam to release their music.
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C.
Tangerine Records
Tangerine Records was an independent record label established in the early 1960s that became a key outlet for Ray Charles’s own recordings and productions.
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D.
Intrada Records
Intrada Records is a specialty record label best known for producing and releasing film and television soundtracks, including many expanded and previously unreleased scores.
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E.
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records was a British independent record label and music company known for working with rock and metal artists and for its extensive catalog and reissue operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Matador Records Description of subject: Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
subject surface form:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
this entity surface form:
Matador Records in the United States