Deltone Records
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Deltone Records was the independent label founded by surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale to release his early and influential surf music recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Deltone Records canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10032038 — 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: Deltone Records Context triple: [Dick Dale, recordLabel, Deltone Records]
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A.
Dolton Records
Dolton Records was an American record label best known for releasing early rock and pop music in the late 1950s and 1960s, including hits by artists like The Fleetwoods and The Ventures.
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B.
Musicor Records
Musicor Records was an American record label active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, known for releasing country and pop music by artists such as The Statler Brothers.
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C.
Fontana Records
Fontana Records is a British record label known for releasing a wide range of pop, rock, and jazz recordings, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Phonogenic Records
Phonogenic Records is a British record label known for signing and releasing music by artists such as Danny O’Donoghue and his band The Script.
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E.
Tennman Records
Tennman Records is a record label founded by Justin Timberlake, known for releasing some of his music projects and working with various pop and R&B 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: Deltone Records Target entity description: Deltone Records was the independent label founded by surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale to release his early and influential surf music recordings.
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A.
Dolton Records
Dolton Records was an American record label best known for releasing early rock and pop music in the late 1950s and 1960s, including hits by artists like The Fleetwoods and The Ventures.
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B.
Musicor Records
Musicor Records was an American record label active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, known for releasing country and pop music by artists such as The Statler Brothers.
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C.
Fontana Records
Fontana Records is a British record label known for releasing a wide range of pop, rock, and jazz recordings, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Phonogenic Records
Phonogenic Records is a British record label known for signing and releasing music by artists such as Danny O’Donoghue and his band The Script.
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E.
Tennman Records
Tennman Records is a record label founded by Justin Timberlake, known for releasing some of his music projects and working with various pop and R&B artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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record label ⓘ |
| associatedPerson |
Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
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linked to:
Dick Dale and his band
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| associatedWith |
Southern California surf scene
ⓘ
surf rock ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | releasing Dick Dale’s own recordings ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Dick Dale ⓘ |
| genre |
rock and roll
ⓘ
surf music ⓘ |
| hasFounder | Dick Dale ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelease |
early Dick Dale surf singles
ⓘ
“Let’s Go Trippin’” ⓘ
linked to:
Let’s Go Trippin’
|
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of surf music
ⓘ
later surf rock bands ⓘ |
| labelType | artist-owned label ⓘ |
| notableArtist | Dick Dale ⓘ |
| notableFor |
releasing early surf music recordings
ⓘ
releasing influential surf guitar recordings ⓘ |
| primaryInstrumentFeatured | electric guitar ⓘ |
| primaryStyle | instrumental surf ⓘ |
| product |
albums
ⓘ
phonograph records ⓘ singles ⓘ |
| purpose | to release Dick Dale’s early surf music recordings ⓘ |
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: Deltone Records Description of subject: Deltone Records was the independent label founded by surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale to release his early and influential surf music recordings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.