Rough Trade Records
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Rough Trade Records is an influential independent British record label known for championing post-punk, indie, and alternative artists since the late 1970s.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rough Trade Records canonical | 50 |
| Rough Trade | 2 |
| Rough Trade Records Ltd. | 1 |
| Rough Trade Records in Europe | 1 |
| Rough Trade Shops | 1 |
| Rough Trade record shop | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T774634 — 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: Rough Trade Records Context triple: [Ys, recordLabel, Rough Trade Records]
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A.
Custard Records
Custard Records is a music label best known for releasing and promoting the work of British singer-songwriter James Blunt.
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B.
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
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C.
Skint Records
Skint Records is a British independent record label best known for pioneering big beat and electronic dance music in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Relativity Records
Relativity Records was an American independent record label known for releasing influential metal, hip-hop, and alternative rock albums during the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
K Records
K Records is an independent record label based in Olympia, Washington, known for its influential role in the DIY, indie rock, and lo-fi music scenes.
- 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: Rough Trade Records Target entity description: Rough Trade Records is an influential independent British record label known for championing post-punk, indie, and alternative artists since the late 1970s.
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A.
Custard Records
Custard Records is a music label best known for releasing and promoting the work of British singer-songwriter James Blunt.
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B.
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
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C.
Skint Records
Skint Records is a British independent record label best known for pioneering big beat and electronic dance music in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Relativity Records
Relativity Records was an American independent record label known for releasing influential metal, hip-hop, and alternative rock albums during the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
K Records
K Records is an independent record label based in Olympia, Washington, known for its influential role in the DIY, indie rock, and lo-fi music scenes.
- 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: Rough Trade Records Description of subject: Rough Trade Records is an influential independent British record label known for championing post-punk, indie, and alternative artists since the late 1970s.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade Records in Europe
subject surface form:
Sound & Color
subject surface form:
Boys & Girls
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade Shops
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade record shop
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade
subject surface form:
Monsters of Folk (album)
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade
this entity surface form:
Rough Trade Records Ltd.