Excelsior Records
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Excelsior Records was an American independent record label active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing early jazz and pop recordings, including work by the Nat King Cole Trio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Excelsior Records canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484525 — 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: Excelsior Records Context triple: [Nat King Cole Trio, recordLabel, Excelsior Records]
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A.
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is a prominent American record label known for signing influential rock, folk, and alternative artists since the mid-20th century.
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B.
Erato Records
Erato Records is a French classical music record label renowned for its high-quality recordings and strong focus on Baroque and early music repertoire.
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C.
Naxos Records
Naxos Records is a major classical music label known for its extensive budget-priced catalog and recordings of both standard repertoire and lesser-known works by orchestras and artists worldwide.
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D.
Albany Records
Albany Records is an American classical music label known for its extensive catalog of contemporary and lesser-known works, particularly by U.S. composers and orchestras.
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E.
Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record label known for its adventurous and eclectic catalog spanning contemporary classical, world music, jazz, and alternative rock, and for its artist-driven approach to recording.
- 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: Excelsior Records Target entity description: Excelsior Records was an American independent record label active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing early jazz and pop recordings, including work by the Nat King Cole Trio.
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A.
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is a prominent American record label known for signing influential rock, folk, and alternative artists since the mid-20th century.
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B.
Erato Records
Erato Records is a French classical music record label renowned for its high-quality recordings and strong focus on Baroque and early music repertoire.
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C.
Naxos Records
Naxos Records is a major classical music label known for its extensive budget-priced catalog and recordings of both standard repertoire and lesser-known works by orchestras and artists worldwide.
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D.
Albany Records
Albany Records is an American classical music label known for its extensive catalog of contemporary and lesser-known works, particularly by U.S. composers and orchestras.
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E.
Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record label known for its adventurous and eclectic catalog spanning contemporary classical, world music, jazz, and alternative rock, and for its artist-driven approach to recording.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American record label
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independent record label ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Nat King Cole Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
traditional pop
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vocal jazz ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent label ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionScope | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
recording and releasing jazz artists
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recording and releasing pop artists ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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pop music ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
documented early recordings of Nat King Cole
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part of the early American independent label movement ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| mediaFormat | shellac records ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early jazz recordings
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early pop recordings ⓘ releases by the Nat King Cole Trio ⓘ |
| product |
78 rpm records
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phonograph records ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| typeOfLabel | independent jazz label ⓘ |
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: Excelsior Records Description of subject: Excelsior Records was an American independent record label active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing early jazz and pop recordings, including work by the Nat King Cole Trio.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.