XL Recordings
E210417
XL Recordings is a prominent independent British record label known for signing influential and genre-defining artists across pop, electronic, and alternative music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XL Recordings canonical | 57 |
| XL Recordings America | 1 |
| XL Songs Ltd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881102 — 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: XL Recordings Context triple: [Adele, recordLabel, XL Recordings]
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A.
Big Brother Recordings
Big Brother Recordings is the independent record label founded by the British rock band Oasis to release their music and related projects.
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B.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
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C.
VP Records
VP Records is a prominent independent record label best known for its extensive catalog and global promotion of reggae and dancehall music.
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D.
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is a Sony Music Entertainment imprint known for reissuing and curating classic albums, archival recordings, and special catalog releases from major artists.
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E.
XO Records
XO Records is a Canadian record label and music collective co-founded by The Weeknd, known for releasing his music and that of other contemporary R&B and hip-hop artists.
- 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: XL Recordings Target entity description: XL Recordings is a prominent independent British record label known for signing influential and genre-defining artists across pop, electronic, and alternative music.
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A.
Big Brother Recordings
Big Brother Recordings is the independent record label founded by the British rock band Oasis to release their music and related projects.
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B.
Red Hill Records
Red Hill Records is a Christian music label known for releasing Katy Perry’s early gospel album before her mainstream pop breakthrough.
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C.
VP Records
VP Records is a prominent independent record label best known for its extensive catalog and global promotion of reggae and dancehall music.
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D.
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is a Sony Music Entertainment imprint known for reissuing and curating classic albums, archival recordings, and special catalog releases from major artists.
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E.
XO Records
XO Records is a Canadian record label and music collective co-founded by The Weeknd, known for releasing his music and that of other contemporary R&B and hip-hop artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
ⓘ
independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributes |
Adele recordings
ⓘ
Arca recordings ⓘ Basement Jaxx recordings ⓘ Dizzee Rascal recordings ⓘ Gil Scott-Heron recordings ⓘ Ibeyi recordings ⓘ Jack White recordings ⓘ Jai Paul recordings ⓘ Jungle recordings ⓘ KAYTRANADA recordings ⓘ King Krule recordings ⓘ M.I.A. recordings ⓘ Radiohead recordings ⓘ Sampha recordings ⓘ The Prodigy recordings ⓘ The xx recordings ⓘ Thom Yorke recordings ⓘ Vampire Weekend recordings ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Nick Halkes
ⓘ
Richard Russell ⓘ Tim Palmer ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative music
ⓘ
dance music ⓘ electronic music ⓘ hip hop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| hasPart |
XL Recordings
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
XL Recordings America
|
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| memberOf | Beggars Group labels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Adele album 21
ⓘ
25 (Adele album) ⓘ
surface form:
Adele album 25
Dizzee Rascal album Boy in da Corner ⓘ M.I.A. album Arular ⓘ M.I.A. ⓘ
surface form:
M.I.A. album Kala
In Rainbows ⓘ
surface form:
Radiohead album In Rainbows (physical release)
The Prodigy ⓘ
surface form:
The Prodigy album Music for the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy ⓘ
surface form:
The Prodigy album The Fat of the Land
The xx album xx ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Beggars Group ⓘ |
| product |
music publishing
ⓘ
music recordings ⓘ |
| website | https://xlrecordings.com ⓘ |
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: XL Recordings Description of subject: XL Recordings is a prominent independent British record label known for signing influential and genre-defining artists across pop, electronic, and alternative music.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Big beat