Soul Vendors
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Soul Vendors were a prominent Jamaican studio band closely associated with producer Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label, known for backing many foundational ska and rocksteady recordings in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soul Vendors canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11140829 — 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: Soul Vendors Context triple: [Studio One, hasBackingBand, Soul Vendors]
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A.
Soulman
Soulman is the costumed mascot character of the Philadelphia Soul arena football team, entertaining fans at games and team events.
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B.
Soulstar
Soulstar is a neo-soul/R&B album by Musiq Soulchild known for its smooth, soulful sound and introspective songwriting.
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C.
Souljacker
Souljacker is a 2001 alternative rock album by the American band Eels, noted for its darker, guitar-driven sound and storytelling lyrics.
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D.
Def Soul
Def Soul is a record label imprint associated with Def Jam Recordings that focused on contemporary R&B and soul artists.
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E.
Soulshock & Karlin
Soulshock & Karlin are a Danish record-producing and songwriting duo known for crafting R&B and pop hits for major international artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
- 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: Soul Vendors Target entity description: Soul Vendors were a prominent Jamaican studio band closely associated with producer Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label, known for backing many foundational ska and rocksteady recordings in the 1960s.
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A.
Soulman
Soulman is the costumed mascot character of the Philadelphia Soul arena football team, entertaining fans at games and team events.
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B.
Soulstar
Soulstar is a neo-soul/R&B album by Musiq Soulchild known for its smooth, soulful sound and introspective songwriting.
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C.
Souljacker
Souljacker is a 2001 alternative rock album by the American band Eels, noted for its darker, guitar-driven sound and storytelling lyrics.
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D.
Def Soul
Def Soul is a record label imprint associated with Def Jam Recordings that focused on contemporary R&B and soul artists.
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E.
Soulshock & Karlin
Soulshock & Karlin are a Danish record-producing and songwriting duo known for crafting R&B and pop hits for major international artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jamaican musical group
ⓘ
studio band ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brentford Road studio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coxsone Dodd NERFINISHED ⓘ Sound Dimension NERFINISHED ⓘ Studio One NERFINISHED ⓘ The Skatalites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backedArtist |
Alton Ellis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bob Andy NERFINISHED ⓘ Delroy Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Boothe NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Griffiths NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heptones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wailers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Brentford Road, Kingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Clement "Coxsone" Dodd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Jamaica ⓘ |
| genre |
reggae
ⓘ
rocksteady ⓘ ska ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | The Soul Vendors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Brian Atkinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ernest Ranglin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie Mittoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Isaacs NERFINISHED ⓘ Leroy Sibbles NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Sterling NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Knibb NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Alphonso NERFINISHED ⓘ Vin Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later Studio One session bands ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | early reggae ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
horn section
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keyboards ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Kingston, Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Studio One house bands ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing foundational rocksteady recordings
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backing foundational ska recordings ⓘ contributing to the transition from ska to rocksteady ⓘ |
| partOf | Studio One sound ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Studio One recording studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Studio One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | backing band ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
horn-driven arrangements
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prominent organ and piano lines ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Soul Vendors Description of subject: Soul Vendors were a prominent Jamaican studio band closely associated with producer Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label, known for backing many foundational ska and rocksteady recordings in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
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