Stiff Records
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Stiff Records was a pioneering independent British record label, especially influential in the late 1970s punk and new wave scenes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stiff Records canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5713601 — 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: Stiff Records Context triple: [Richard Hell and the Voidoids, recordLabel, Stiff Records]
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A.
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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B.
Ruthless Records
Ruthless Records is an American hip hop record label founded by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, best known for launching the careers of N.W.A and pioneering gangsta rap on the West Coast.
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C.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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D.
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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E.
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a Danish jazz record label known for its extensive catalog of recordings by prominent American and European jazz musicians, particularly from the 1970s onward.
- 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: Stiff Records Target entity description: Stiff Records was a pioneering independent British record label, especially influential in the late 1970s punk and new wave scenes.
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A.
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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B.
Ruthless Records
Ruthless Records is an American hip hop record label founded by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, best known for launching the careers of N.W.A and pioneering gangsta rap on the West Coast.
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C.
S-Curve Records
S-Curve Records is an independent American record label known for signing and promoting artists such as soul singer Joss Stone.
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D.
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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E.
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a Danish jazz record label known for its extensive catalog of recordings by prominent American and European jazz musicians, particularly from the 1970s onward.
- 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: Stiff Records Description of subject: Stiff Records was a pioneering independent British record label, especially influential in the late 1970s punk and new wave scenes.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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memoir "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink"