CBS Records
E175488
CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CBS Records canonical | 74 |
| CBS Associated Records | 1 |
| CBS Records (international) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895969 — 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: CBS Records Context triple: [Clive Davis, employer, CBS Records]
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A.
ABC Records
ABC Records was a prominent American record label known for releasing influential blues, jazz, and pop recordings, including notable works by B.B. King.
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B.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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C.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is a major American record label known for its influential roster of artists across genres such as rock, pop, R&B, and hip-hop.
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D.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, founded in 1942 and based in Los Angeles, known for signing iconic artists across jazz, pop, and rock.
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E.
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.
- 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: CBS Records Target entity description: CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
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A.
ABC Records
ABC Records was a prominent American record label known for releasing influential blues, jazz, and pop recordings, including notable works by B.B. King.
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B.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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C.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is a major American record label known for its influential roster of artists across genres such as rock, pop, R&B, and hip-hop.
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D.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, founded in 1942 and based in Los Angeles, known for signing iconic artists across jazz, pop, and rock.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music company
ⓘ
record label ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Sony
ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Corporation
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompleted | 1991 ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia Records (label)
Epic Records ⓘ
surface form:
Epic Records (label)
Sony ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Corporation of America
|
| businessModel |
manufacturing and distributing sound recordings
ⓘ
signing and promoting recording artists ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defunct | true ⓘ |
| defunctYear | early 1990s ⓘ |
| distributed | Columbia Records releases outside North America ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
classical music ⓘ country music ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop music ⓘ popular music ⓘ rock music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| labelImprintOf |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia Records (U.S.)
Epic Records ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio recordings ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of popular music in the 20th century
ⓘ
promotion of major recording artists ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Columbia Broadcasting System
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Inc.
|
| ownedTrademark | Columbia name and trademarks outside North America (before sale to Sony) ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Columbia Broadcasting System
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Inc.
Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| partOf | CBS Inc. media operations ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia Records (as a label name used by CBS in the U.S.)
|
| product |
cassette tapes
ⓘ
compact discs ⓘ recorded music ⓘ vinyl records ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| status | defunct as an independent brand ⓘ |
| successor |
Sony Music Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: CBS Records Description of subject: CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
Referenced by (76)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wynton Marsalis (album)
subject surface form:
Gilbert O'Sullivan