Folk Era Records
E470054
Folk Era Records is an independent music label best known for releasing and reissuing folk and acoustic recordings, including work by influential groups like The Kingston Trio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Folk Era Records canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4790948 — 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: Folk Era Records Context triple: [The Kingston Trio, recordLabel, Folk Era Records]
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A.
Folkways Records
Folkways Records was an influential American record label renowned for documenting and preserving folk, world, and socially conscious music throughout the mid-20th century.
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B.
Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records was a prominent American jazz and blues record label of the 1930s and 1940s, known for influential recordings by major blues and swing artists.
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C.
Silvertone Records
Silvertone Records is a British record label known for signing influential alternative and rock acts, and has operated under major music groups including Bertelsmann Music Group.
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D.
Rockingale Records
Rockingale Records is an independent record label founded by singer-songwriter Carole King to release her own music and related projects.
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E.
Shanachie Records
Shanachie Records is an American independent record label known for releasing folk, world, jazz, and roots music.
- 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: Folk Era Records Target entity description: Folk Era Records is an independent music label best known for releasing and reissuing folk and acoustic recordings, including work by influential groups like The Kingston Trio.
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A.
Folkways Records
Folkways Records was an influential American record label renowned for documenting and preserving folk, world, and socially conscious music throughout the mid-20th century.
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B.
Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records was a prominent American jazz and blues record label of the 1930s and 1940s, known for influential recordings by major blues and swing artists.
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C.
Silvertone Records
Silvertone Records is a British record label known for signing influential alternative and rock acts, and has operated under major music groups including Bertelsmann Music Group.
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D.
Rockingale Records
Rockingale Records is an independent record label founded by singer-songwriter Carole King to release her own music and related projects.
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E.
Shanachie Records
Shanachie Records is an American independent record label known for releasing folk, world, jazz, and roots music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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music label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Kingston Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent ⓘ |
| businessType | privately held company ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionFormat | physical media ⓘ |
| focus | folk revival era recordings ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic music
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folk music ⓘ |
| hasSubgenreFocus |
contemporary folk
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singer-songwriter ⓘ traditional folk ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
reissuing acoustic recordings
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reissuing folk recordings ⓘ releasing acoustic recordings ⓘ releasing folk recordings ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| product |
compact discs
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music albums ⓘ reissue compilations ⓘ |
| releases |
compilation albums
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live albums ⓘ studio albums ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
catalog reissues
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heritage folk artists ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
acoustic music listeners
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folk music fans ⓘ |
| workField |
music publishing
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record production ⓘ |
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: Folk Era Records Description of subject: Folk Era Records is an independent music label best known for releasing and reissuing folk and acoustic recordings, including work by influential groups like The Kingston Trio.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.