Kedar Records
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Kedar Records is a music label best known for releasing Erykah Badu’s influential debut album "Baduizm" and for its role in promoting neo-soul artists in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kedar Records canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6404316 — 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: Kedar Records Context triple: [Baduizm, recordLabel, Kedar Records]
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A.
Everest Records
Everest Records is a record label known for releasing jazz and other genre recordings, including works by prominent drummer Jo Jones.
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B.
Deram Records
Deram Records was a British record label, launched by Decca in the 1960s, known for its early progressive and folk-rock releases and for issuing some of Cat Stevens’ first recordings.
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C.
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an influential American jazz record label, especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, known for recording major artists such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and Chet Baker.
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D.
Brando Records
Brando Records is an independent music label known for working with alternative rock acts such as Blue October.
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E.
Audium Records
Audium Records is an independent music label known for releasing country and Americana recordings, particularly by veteran and roots-oriented artists.
- 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: Kedar Records Target entity description: Kedar Records is a music label best known for releasing Erykah Badu’s influential debut album "Baduizm" and for its role in promoting neo-soul artists in the 1990s.
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A.
Everest Records
Everest Records is a record label known for releasing jazz and other genre recordings, including works by prominent drummer Jo Jones.
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B.
Deram Records
Deram Records was a British record label, launched by Decca in the 1960s, known for its early progressive and folk-rock releases and for issuing some of Cat Stevens’ first recordings.
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C.
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an influential American jazz record label, especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, known for recording major artists such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and Chet Baker.
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D.
Brando Records
Brando Records is an independent music label known for working with alternative rock acts such as Blue October.
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E.
Audium Records
Audium Records is an independent music label known for releasing country and Americana recordings, particularly by veteran and roots-oriented artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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record label ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| artistPromotionRole | promoted emerging neo-soul artists ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| businessModel | recording and releasing music ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalImpact | contributed to the rise of neo soul in mainstream music ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
CD
ⓘ
cassette ⓘ digital audio ⓘ |
| focusPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| genre | neo soul ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
R&B
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neo soul ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
promoting neo-soul artists in the 1990s
ⓘ
releasing Erykah Badu’s debut album "Baduizm" ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| notableRelease | "Baduizm" ⓘ |
| notableReleaseArtist | Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| performer | Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| product |
music albums
ⓘ
sound recordings ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Kedar Records
ⓘ
Kedar Records ⓘ |
| roleInGenre | helped popularize neo soul ⓘ |
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: Kedar Records Description of subject: Kedar Records is a music label best known for releasing Erykah Badu’s influential debut album "Baduizm" and for its role in promoting neo-soul artists in the 1990s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Erykah Badu album "Mama’s Gun"
subject linked to:
Kedar Records
subject linked to:
Kedar Records