Asylum Records
E18063
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asylum Records canonical | 254 |
| Asylum Records country division | 1 |
| Elektra/Asylum Records | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150400 — 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: Asylum Records Context triple: [Bob Dylan, recordLabel, Asylum Records]
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A.
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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B.
Arista Records
Arista Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting numerous successful artists across pop, R&B, and rock music.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
- 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: Asylum Records Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Arista Records
Arista Records is a major American record label known for signing and promoting numerous successful artists across pop, R&B, and rock music.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Asylum Records Description of subject: Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 and known for signing prominent rock and singer-songwriter artists in the 1970s.
Referenced by (256)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kevin Sharp (singer)