Smash Records
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Smash Records was an American record label active in the 1960s, known for releasing rock and roll, pop, and R&B recordings by prominent artists of the era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smash Records canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4010989 — 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: Smash Records Context triple: [Jerry Lee Lewis, recordLabel, Smash Records]
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A.
Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records is an influential American hip hop and electronic music record label known for launching and nurturing groundbreaking artists and shaping 1980s–1990s urban music culture.
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B.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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C.
Rowdy Records
Rowdy Records is a record label known for working with R&B artists such as Monica in the 1990s.
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D.
Bang Records
Bang Records was a 1960s American record label known for launching the early careers of artists like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison.
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E.
Monument Records
Monument Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential pop and country music, including many of Roy Orbison’s classic hits.
- 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: Smash Records Target entity description: Smash Records was an American record label active in the 1960s, known for releasing rock and roll, pop, and R&B recordings by prominent artists of the era.
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A.
Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records is an influential American hip hop and electronic music record label known for launching and nurturing groundbreaking artists and shaping 1980s–1990s urban music culture.
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B.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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C.
Rowdy Records
Rowdy Records is a record label known for working with R&B artists such as Monica in the 1990s.
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D.
Bang Records
Bang Records was a 1960s American record label known for launching the early careers of artists like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison.
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E.
Monument Records
Monument Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential pop and country music, including many of Roy Orbison’s classic hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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record label ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mercury Records
ⓘ
Shelby Singleton ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | Mercury Records ⓘ |
| era | 1960s American popular music ⓘ |
| format | vinyl records ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Shelby Singleton ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| market |
R&B audience
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mainstream pop ⓘ rock and roll audience ⓘ |
| notableArtist |
Bill Justis
ⓘ
Bruce Channel ⓘ James Brown ⓘ Jerry Lee Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Miller ⓘ The Left Banke ⓘ |
| notableRelease |
King of the Road
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surface form:
“King of the Road”
Little Green Apples ⓘ
surface form:
“Little Green Apples”
“Out of Sight” ⓘ Walk Away Renée ⓘ
surface form:
“Walk Away Renée”
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| parentCompany | Mercury Records ⓘ |
| specializedIn | single releases ⓘ |
| 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: Smash Records Description of subject: Smash Records was an American record label active in the 1960s, known for releasing rock and roll, pop, and R&B recordings by prominent artists of the era.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.