Jive Records
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Jive Records was a prominent American record label known for launching and promoting major pop and R&B artists, especially during the 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jive Records canonical | 314 |
| Jive Zomba Recording Corporation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T878513 — 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: Jive Records Context triple: [Justin Timberlake, recordLabel, Jive Records]
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A.
J Records
J Records was an American record label founded by music executive Clive Davis, known for signing major artists such as Alicia Keys and playing a significant role in early 2000s R&B and pop music.
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B.
LaFace Records
LaFace Records is an American record label co-founded by Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, known for launching the careers of major R&B and hip-hop artists in the 1990s.
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C.
Rhythm Nation Records
Rhythm Nation Records is the independent record label founded by pop and R&B icon Janet Jackson to release her music and support other artists.
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D.
MCA Records
MCA Records was a major American record label known for releasing music by prominent rock, pop, and country artists throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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E.
Uptown Records
Uptown Records was an influential New York–based hip hop and R&B label that helped launch the careers of major 1990s artists and shaped the sound of urban contemporary music.
- 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: Jive Records Target entity description: Jive Records was a prominent American record label known for launching and promoting major pop and R&B artists, especially during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
J Records
J Records was an American record label founded by music executive Clive Davis, known for signing major artists such as Alicia Keys and playing a significant role in early 2000s R&B and pop music.
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B.
LaFace Records
LaFace Records is an American record label co-founded by Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, known for launching the careers of major R&B and hip-hop artists in the 1990s.
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C.
Rhythm Nation Records
Rhythm Nation Records is the independent record label founded by pop and R&B icon Janet Jackson to release her music and support other artists.
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D.
MCA Records
MCA Records was a major American record label known for releasing music by prominent rock, pop, and country artists throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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E.
Uptown Records
Uptown Records was an influential New York–based hip hop and R&B label that helped launch the careers of major 1990s artists and shaped the sound of urban contemporary music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Jive Records Description of subject: Jive Records was a prominent American record label known for launching and promoting major pop and R&B artists, especially during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (315)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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