Apple Corps
E202571
Apple Corps is a multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 to manage their business interests and creative projects, including their record label Apple Records.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apple Corps canonical | 8 |
| Apple Corps Ltd. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1811927 — 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.
Target entity: Apple Corps Context triple: [Alan Aldridge, workedWith, Apple Corps]
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A.
Apple Records
Apple Records is the record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 as part of their multimedia company Apple Corps, known for releasing much of the band’s later work and various solo projects.
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B.
Playtone
Playtone is a film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, known for producing acclaimed movies and series such as "Band of Brothers" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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C.
Commodore Records
Commodore Records was an independent jazz and swing record label active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing influential recordings by artists such as Billie Holiday.
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D.
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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E.
Island Records
Island Records is a prominent British-Jamaican record label known for launching and nurturing major rock, pop, and reggae artists, including U2 and Bob Marley.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Apple Corps Target entity description: Apple Corps is a multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 to manage their business interests and creative projects, including their record label Apple Records.
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A.
Apple Records
Apple Records is the record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 as part of their multimedia company Apple Corps, known for releasing much of the band’s later work and various solo projects.
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B.
Playtone
Playtone is a film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, known for producing acclaimed movies and series such as "Band of Brothers" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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C.
Commodore Records
Commodore Records was an independent jazz and swing record label active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing influential recordings by artists such as Billie Holiday.
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D.
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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E.
Island Records
Island Records is a prominent British-Jamaican record label known for launching and nurturing major rock, pop, and reggae artists, including U2 and Bob Marley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multimedia corporation
ⓘ
record company holding company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Beatles archival projects
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Beatles merchandising ⓘ The Beatles catalogue reissues ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Apple Corps
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Apple Corps Ltd.
|
| foundedBy |
George Harrison
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John Lennon ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Ringo Starr ⓘ The Beatles ⓘ |
| hasLogo | green Granny Smith apple logo ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Apple Records label operations
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film and video production activities ⓘ music publishing activities ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| inception | 1968 ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
film production ⓘ multimedia ⓘ music industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalDispute | Apple Corps v. Apple Computer ⓘ |
| legalDisputeSubject | trademark rights to the name Apple in music-related fields ⓘ |
| legalDisputeWith |
Apple Inc.
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surface form:
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited company ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Savile Row
ⓘ
surface form:
Savile Row, London (historical headquarters)
|
| notableEmployee |
Allen Klein
ⓘ
Derek Taylor ⓘ Neil Aspinall ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Let It Be film production
ⓘ
Magical Mystery Tour ⓘ
surface form:
Magical Mystery Tour film production
The Beatles 1 compilation album ⓘ
surface form:
The Beatles 1 compilation project
"The Beatles Anthology" production work ⓘ
surface form:
The Beatles Anthology project
The Beatles remastered catalogue ⓘ Rock Band ⓘ
surface form:
The Beatles: Rock Band project
|
| ownerOf |
The Beatles image and likeness rights (selected rights)
ⓘ
The Beatles discography ⓘ
surface form:
The Beatles recordings (selected rights)
The Beatles trademark rights ⓘ |
| purpose |
manage The Beatles business interests
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manage The Beatles creative projects ⓘ |
| settlement |
1991 trademark agreement with Apple Computer
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2007 trademark settlement with Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Apple Electronics
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Apple Films ⓘ Apple Records ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Apple Corps Description of subject: Apple Corps is a multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 to manage their business interests and creative projects, including their record label Apple Records.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.