Stax Records
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Stax Records was a pioneering American soul music label based in Memphis, Tennessee, renowned for shaping Southern soul and launching the careers of artists like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stax Records canonical | 105 |
| Stax Studios | 14 |
| Stax | 11 |
| Stax Records artists | 1 |
| Stax Records discography | 1 |
| Stax Records label | 1 |
| Stax Records performance style | 1 |
| Stax Records production team | 1 |
| Stax Records studio | 1 |
| Stax/Volt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T642716 — 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: Stax Records Context triple: [Stax Museum of American Soul Music, dedicatedTo, Stax Records]
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A.
Gordy Records
Gordy Records is a Motown-affiliated record label known for releasing influential soul and R&B music by artists such as The Temptations and Rick James.
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B.
Kent Records
Kent Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential blues and R&B recordings, including early work by legendary guitarist and singer B.B. King.
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C.
Atco Records
Atco Records is an American record label, originally a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, known for releasing influential rock, soul, and pop music from the mid-20th century onward.
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D.
Imperial Records
Imperial Records was a prominent mid-20th-century American record label known for releasing influential rock and roll, R&B, and pop recordings.
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E.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a major American record label known for releasing influential recordings across genres such as pop, rock, jazz, and R&B since the mid-20th century.
- 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: Stax Records Target entity description: Stax Records was a pioneering American soul music label based in Memphis, Tennessee, renowned for shaping Southern soul and launching the careers of artists like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
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A.
Gordy Records
Gordy Records is a Motown-affiliated record label known for releasing influential soul and R&B music by artists such as The Temptations and Rick James.
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B.
Kent Records
Kent Records is an American record label best known for releasing influential blues and R&B recordings, including early work by legendary guitarist and singer B.B. King.
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C.
Atco Records
Atco Records is an American record label, originally a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, known for releasing influential rock, soul, and pop music from the mid-20th century onward.
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D.
Imperial Records
Imperial Records was a prominent mid-20th-century American record label known for releasing influential rock and roll, R&B, and pop recordings.
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E.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a major American record label known for releasing influential recordings across genres such as pop, rock, jazz, and R&B since the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Stax Records Description of subject: Stax Records was a pioneering American soul music label based in Memphis, Tennessee, renowned for shaping Southern soul and launching the careers of artists like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Referenced by (137)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stax Studios
this entity surface form:
Stax
subject surface form:
Live Wire/Blues Power
subject surface form:
Live Wire/Blues Power
this entity surface form:
Stax
subject surface form:
Years Gone By
subject surface form:
Years Gone By
this entity surface form:
Stax
subject surface form:
Years Gone By
this entity surface form:
Stax Studios
subject surface form:
I'll Play the Blues for You (album)
subject surface form:
I'll Play the Blues for You (album)
this entity surface form:
Stax
subject surface form:
I'll Play the Blues for You (album)
this entity surface form:
Stax
this entity surface form:
Stax Records production team
this entity surface form:
Stax/Volt
this entity surface form:
Stax Studios
this entity surface form:
Stax Studios
this entity surface form:
Stax
subject surface form:
Gee Whiz
subject surface form:
Comfort Me