Almo Sounds
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Almo Sounds was an independent record label founded in the mid-1990s by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, known for signing alternative and rock artists including producer-musician Butch Vig’s projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Almo Sounds canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5400596 — 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: Almo Sounds Context triple: [Butch Vig, recordLabel, Almo Sounds]
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A.
Hoy Sound
Hoy Sound is a tidal strait in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, known for its strong currents and its strategic position between the islands of Hoy and Mainland.
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B.
Champion Sound
"Champion Sound" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop album by producer Madlib, created in collaboration with the late J Dilla under their duo name Jaylib.
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C.
Smith Sound
Smith Sound is a narrow Arctic waterway between Greenland and Ellesmere Island that forms part of the connection between Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
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D.
The Yellows
The Yellows is a common nickname for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., one of Israel’s most successful and popular football clubs, known for its yellow team colors.
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E.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of Warrington Town F.C., an English football club based in Warrington, Cheshire.
- 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: Almo Sounds Target entity description: Almo Sounds was an independent record label founded in the mid-1990s by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, known for signing alternative and rock artists including producer-musician Butch Vig’s projects.
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A.
Hoy Sound
Hoy Sound is a tidal strait in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, known for its strong currents and its strategic position between the islands of Hoy and Mainland.
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B.
Champion Sound
"Champion Sound" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop album by producer Madlib, created in collaboration with the late J Dilla under their duo name Jaylib.
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C.
Smith Sound
Smith Sound is a narrow Arctic waterway between Greenland and Ellesmere Island that forms part of the connection between Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
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D.
The Yellows
The Yellows is a common nickname for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., one of Israel’s most successful and popular football clubs, known for its yellow team colors.
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E.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of Warrington Town F.C., an English football club based in Warrington, Cheshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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record label ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | early 2000s ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Geffen Records
NERFINISHED
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Universal Music Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributes |
Garbage (albums)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herb Alpert (albums) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozomatli (albums) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | artist-friendly contracts ⓘ |
| foundedAfter | sale of A&M Records to PolyGram ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Herb Alpert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerry Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasFounderRole |
Herb Alpert: co-founder
ⓘ
Jerry Moss: co-founder ⓘ |
| hasNotableProducer | Butch Vig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.almosounds.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| inception | 1994 ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alpert and Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Herb Alpert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerry Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Almo Sounds LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Almo Sounds LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
audio cassettes
ⓘ
compact discs ⓘ music recordings ⓘ music videos ⓘ |
| signedArtist |
Butch Vig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garbage NERFINISHED ⓘ Gill Landry NERFINISHED ⓘ Gillian Welch NERFINISHED ⓘ Herb Alpert NERFINISHED ⓘ Imogen Heap NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozomatli NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Westerberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Petra Haden NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulp NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Crowes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cranberries NERFINISHED ⓘ The Innocence Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rembrandts NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tragically Hip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Almo Sounds Description of subject: Almo Sounds was an independent record label founded in the mid-1990s by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, known for signing alternative and rock artists including producer-musician Butch Vig’s projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.