Delmark Records
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Delmark Records is a pioneering independent Chicago-based blues and jazz label known for recording influential artists like Magic Sam and helping define the city’s electric blues sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delmark Records canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378554 — 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.
Target entity: Delmark Records Context triple: [Magic Sam, recordLabel, Delmark Records]
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Elektra Records
Elektra Records is a prominent American record label known for signing influential rock, folk, and alternative artists since the mid-20th century.
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Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record label known for its adventurous and eclectic catalog spanning contemporary classical, world music, jazz, and alternative rock, and for its artist-driven approach to recording.
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C.
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a renowned American jazz record label celebrated for its influential catalog and classic recordings by many of the genre’s most important artists.
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D.
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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E.
Tradition Records
Tradition Records was an American folk music label active in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for releasing influential recordings by artists such as Odetta and helping document the folk revival era.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Delmark Records Target entity description: Delmark Records is a pioneering independent Chicago-based blues and jazz label known for recording influential artists like Magic Sam and helping define the city’s electric blues sound.
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A.
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is a prominent American record label known for signing influential rock, folk, and alternative artists since the mid-20th century.
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B.
Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record label known for its adventurous and eclectic catalog spanning contemporary classical, world music, jazz, and alternative rock, and for its artist-driven approach to recording.
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C.
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a renowned American jazz record label celebrated for its influential catalog and classic recordings by many of the genre’s most important artists.
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D.
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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E.
Tradition Records
Tradition Records was an American folk music label active in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for releasing influential recordings by artists such as Odetta and helping document the folk revival era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activity |
publishing
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recording ⓘ reissuing historical recordings ⓘ |
| associatedWithScene |
Chicago blues scene
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Chicago jazz scene ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distribution | independent distribution channels ⓘ |
| focus |
avant-garde jazz
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modern jazz ⓘ traditional blues ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Delmar Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bob Koester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1953 ⓘ |
| founder | Bob Koester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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jazz ⓘ |
| hasFounderRole | Bob Koester as producer ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | derived from Delmar Street in St. Louis ⓘ |
| hasReissueProgram | yes ⓘ |
| hasReputation | pioneering independent Chicago-based blues and jazz label ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Chicago blues recordings
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Chicago jazz recordings ⓘ documenting electric Chicago blues sound ⓘ |
| movedTo | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableArtist |
Anthony Braxton
NERFINISHED
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Buddy Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ J. B. Hutto NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Dawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Junior Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ Magic Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Jr. Lockwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Roscoe Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Ra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLocation | St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Delmark Records, LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedAlbum |
Black Magic
NERFINISHED
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Hoodoo Man Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album) NERFINISHED ⓘ West Side Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
electric blues
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improvised music ⓘ postwar Chicago blues ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Delmark Records Description of subject: Delmark Records is a pioneering independent Chicago-based blues and jazz label known for recording influential artists like Magic Sam and helping define the city’s electric blues sound.
Referenced by (4)
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