Mainstream Records
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Mainstream Records was an American jazz and blues record label active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, known for releasing albums by prominent artists such as Clark Terry and reissuing classic jazz recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mainstream Records canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8119971 — 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: Mainstream Records Context triple: [Clark Terry, recordLabel, Mainstream Records]
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A.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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B.
Monument Records
Monument Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential pop and country music, including many of Roy Orbison’s classic hits.
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C.
Maverick Records
Maverick Records is an American record label co-founded by Madonna in the early 1990s, known for signing influential pop and alternative artists.
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D.
Round Records
Round Records is a music label known for releasing recordings by the American rock band Kingfish and other related artists.
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E.
Checker Records
Checker Records was a prominent American blues and R&B record label, affiliated with Chess Records, that released influential recordings by artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II and Bo Diddley.
- 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: Mainstream Records Target entity description: Mainstream Records was an American jazz and blues record label active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, known for releasing albums by prominent artists such as Clark Terry and reissuing classic jazz recordings.
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A.
Streamline Records
Streamline Records is a record label associated with major pop acts, notably helping launch the early career of American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
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B.
Monument Records
Monument Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential pop and country music, including many of Roy Orbison’s classic hits.
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C.
Maverick Records
Maverick Records is an American record label co-founded by Madonna in the early 1990s, known for signing influential pop and alternative artists.
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D.
Round Records
Round Records is a music label known for releasing recordings by the American rock band Kingfish and other related artists.
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E.
Checker Records
Checker Records was a prominent American blues and R&B record label, affiliated with Chess Records, that released influential recordings by artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II and Bo Diddley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues record label
ⓘ
jazz record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bob Shad Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| catalogIncludes | reissues of 1940s and 1950s jazz recordings ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionArea |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus | album-oriented releases ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bob Shad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| hadParentLabel | Time Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issuedFormat |
45 rpm single
ⓘ
LP ⓘ |
| knownFor |
reissuing classic jazz recordings
ⓘ
releasing albums by Clark Terry ⓘ |
| market | international ⓘ |
| notableSeries |
Mainstream 300 series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mainstream 6000 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reissuePolicy | licensed classic jazz masters for re-release ⓘ |
| releasedMusicBy |
Art Farmer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blue Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Mitchell Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby Shad and the Bad Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddy Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ Carmen McRae NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles McPherson NERFINISHED ⓘ Clark Terry NERFINISHED ⓘ Curtis Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaki Byard NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ John Handy NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Yellin NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Haynes NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelly Manne NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Criss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializedIn |
hard bop
ⓘ
modern jazz ⓘ soul jazz ⓘ |
| 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: Mainstream Records Description of subject: Mainstream Records was an American jazz and blues record label active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, known for releasing albums by prominent artists such as Clark Terry and reissuing classic jazz recordings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.