Touch and Go Records
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Touch and Go Records is an influential American independent record label known for releasing pioneering punk, noise rock, and alternative music since the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Touch and Go Records canonical | 52 |
| Touch and Go Records art department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161199 — 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: Touch and Go Records Context triple: [At Action Park, recordLabel, Touch and Go Records]
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A.
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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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.
Matador Records
Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
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D.
Goner Records
Goner Records is an independent record label and record store based in Memphis, Tennessee, known for releasing garage rock, punk, and lo-fi artists such as Ty Segall.
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E.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
- 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: Touch and Go Records Target entity description: Touch and Go Records is an influential American independent record label known for releasing pioneering punk, noise rock, and alternative music since the 1980s.
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A.
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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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.
Matador Records
Matador Records is an influential independent record label known for championing alternative and indie rock artists since the late 1980s.
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D.
Goner Records
Goner Records is an independent record label and record store based in Memphis, Tennessee, known for releasing garage rock, punk, and lo-fi artists such as Ty Segall.
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E.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
ⓘ
record label ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Chicago
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| businessModel |
artist-friendly royalty rates
ⓘ
long-term catalog support ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distribution | independent distribution networks ⓘ |
| foundedAs | extension of a punk fanzine ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Corey Rusk
ⓘ
Dave Stimson ⓘ Tesco Vee ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
hardcore punk ⓘ indie rock ⓘ noise rock ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Quarterstick Records
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Touch and Go Europe ⓘ |
| inception | 1981 ⓘ |
| influenced |
American indie rock labels
ⓘ
DIY punk scenes in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing independent music business practices
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releasing pioneering American punk records ⓘ supporting underground noise rock scenes ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | Touch and Go fanzine ⓘ |
| releasedMusicFor |
Big Black
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Butthole Surfers ⓘ Didjits ⓘ Don Caballero ⓘ Girls Against Boys ⓘ Killdozer ⓘ Scratch Acid ⓘ Seam ⓘ Shellac ⓘ Slint ⓘ TV on the Radio ⓘ The Ex ⓘ The Jesus Lizard ⓘ Urge Overkill ⓘ |
| status | influential in underground music history ⓘ |
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: Touch and Go Records Description of subject: Touch and Go Records is an influential American independent record label known for releasing pioneering punk, noise rock, and alternative music since the 1980s.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Model
linked to: Touch and Go Records
subject linked to:
TV on the Radio (via Dave Sitek)