Kranky
E417105
Kranky is an independent American record label known for releasing experimental, ambient, and post-rock music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kranky canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161588 — 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: Kranky Context triple: [Low, recordLabel, Kranky]
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A.
Frenetic Records
Frenetic Records is an independent music label known for releasing work by experimental and heavy rock bands such as The Fucking Champs.
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B.
Thrill Jockey
Thrill Jockey is an independent American record label known for its diverse roster of experimental, indie, and avant-garde artists.
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C.
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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D.
Undeas Recordings
Undeas Recordings is a hip-hop record label best known for releasing music by the Brooklyn rap group Junior M.A.F.I.A. and its members.
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E.
Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records is a British record label known for signing influential rock, pop, and folk artists since the late 1960s.
- 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: Kranky Target entity description: Kranky is an independent American record label known for releasing experimental, ambient, and post-rock music.
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A.
Frenetic Records
Frenetic Records is an independent music label known for releasing work by experimental and heavy rock bands such as The Fucking Champs.
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B.
Thrill Jockey
Thrill Jockey is an independent American record label known for its diverse roster of experimental, indie, and avant-garde artists.
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C.
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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D.
Undeas Recordings
Undeas Recordings is a hip-hop record label best known for releasing music by the Brooklyn rap group Junior M.A.F.I.A. and its members.
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E.
Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records is a British record label known for signing influential rock, pop, and folk artists since the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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record label ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| businessModel | independent ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formatReleased |
CD
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digital download ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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experimental music ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| hasType | independent American record label ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
releasing ambient music
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releasing experimental music ⓘ releasing post-rock music ⓘ |
| product |
EPs
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albums ⓘ music recordings ⓘ singles ⓘ |
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: Kranky Description of subject: Kranky is an independent American record label known for releasing experimental, ambient, and post-rock music.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.