praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment. When Sony acquired BMG's half of the conglomerate in 2008, Sony BMG reverted to the SME name. The buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which then relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Out of the "Big Three" record companies, with Universal Music Group being the largest and Warner Music Group, SME is middle-sized.

question: In what year did SME merge with another company? 

answer: 2004

question: What was the name of the other company that SME merged with? 

answer: Bertelsmann Music Group

question: What did the company call themselves after the  merger? 

answer: Sony BMG Music Entertainment

question: In what year did Sony BMG Music Entertainment go back to being called SME? 

answer: 2008
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several smaller record companies, which, ultimately, transformed into one enterprise known as SME. In the depths of the Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company (founded in 1888) in the U.S. (including its Okeh Records subsidiary) was acquired by ARC in 1934.

question: In what year did ARC form? 

answer: 1929

question: In what year did Columbia Phonography Company form? 

answer: 1888

question: In what year did ARC take over Columbia Phonography Company? 

answer: 1934
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off). ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation. The Columbia Phonograph Company had international subsidiaries and affiliates such as the Columbia Graphophone Company in the United Kingdom, but they were sold off prior to CBS acquiring American Columbia. RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label with Okeh its subsidiary label while deemphasizing ARC's other labels. This allowed ARC's leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to former owner Warner Bros. which sold the labels to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward which was reissued on the Columbia label as well as the Vocalion label material from the same time period which was reissued on the Okeh label. Wallerstein, who was promoted at the end of 1947 from president to chairman of the record company, restored Columbia's status as a leading record company and spearheaded the successful introduction of the long playing (LP) record before he retired as Columbia's chairman in 1951. James Conkling then became head of Columbia Records. Also in 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name and began a UK distribution deal with Philips Records, whereas Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label.

question: Who bought out ARC? 

answer: Columbia Broadcasting System

question: In what year was ARC bought? 

answer: 1938

question: What did CBS call ARC after buying it? 

answer: Columbia Recording Corporation

question: Who was the head of CBS at the time? 

answer: William S. Paley

question: Who convinced Paley to buy ARC? 

answer: RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953. In 1956, Conkling left Columbia, he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. Records, and Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company. In 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music.

question: In what year was Epic Records created? 

answer: 1953

question: What company created Epic Records? 

answer: Columbia

question: Who was one of the creators of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences? 

answer: Conkling

question: What did Conkling later go on to lead? 

answer: Warner Bros. Records

question: What type of music was Date Records known for? 

answer: rockabilly
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its main international distributor Philips Records with the goal of CBS starting its own global record company. Philips' acquisition of Mercury Records in the US in 1961 paved the way for this. CBS only had the rights to the Columbia name in North America; therefore the international arm founded in 1961 and launched in 1962 utilized the "CBS Records" name only, with Philips Records distributing the label in Europe. CBS's Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963.

question: In what year was Mercury Records (US) bought out? 

answer: 1961

question: Who acquired Mercury Records (US)? 

answer: Philips Records

question: What is the name of CBS' Mexican record label? 

answer: Discos CBS
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: By 1962, their Columbia Record Productions unit was operating four plants around the United States located in Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey, which manufactured records for not only Columbia's own labels, but also for independent record labels.

question: What 4 areas of the country did Columbia Records have manufacturers in? 

answer: Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1964, CBS established its own UK distribution with the acquisition of Oriole Records. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the distribution deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution.

question: What lable was bought by CBS in the UK? 

answer: Oriole Records.
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: With the record company a global operation in 1965, the Columbia Broadcasting System upper management started pondering changing the name of their record company subsidiary from Columbia Records to CBS Records.

question: CBS began thinking of a name change to their record label in what year? 

answer: 1965
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: Also in late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived. This label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Date's biggest success was "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, peaking at #2 in 1969. The label was discontinued in 1970.

question: Date Records gave rise to the group "Peaches and Herb" in what year? 

answer: 1965

question: Date Records released what major success in 1969? 

answer: "Time of the Season" by the Zombies

question: What place on the charts did Date Records' big success land on? 

answer: #2

question: Despite the success, in what year did Date Records cease to exist? 

answer: 1970
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1966, CBS reorganized its corporate structure with Leiberson promoted to head the new "CBS-Columbia Group" which made the now renamed CBS Records company a separate unit of this new group run by Clive Davis.

question: Who ran CBS-Columbia Group starting in 1966? 

answer: Leiberson
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In March 1968, CBS and Sony formed CBS/Sony Records, a Japanese business joint venture. With Sony being one of the developers behind the compact disc digital music media, a compact disc production plant was constructed in Japan under the joint venture, allowing CBS to begin supplying some of the first compact disc releases for the American market in 1983.

question: In what year did CBS and Sony come together? 

answer: 1968

question: In what year did CDs come to the American market? 

answer: 1983
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: The CBS Records Group was led very successfully by Clive Davis until his dismissal in 1972, after it was discovered that Davis has used CBS funds to finance his personal life, including an expensive bar mitzvah party for his son. He was replaced first by former head Goddard Lieberson, then in 1975 by the colourful and controversial lawyer Walter Yetnikoff, who led the company until 1990.

question: In what year was Clive Davis let go at CBS Records Group? 

answer: 1972
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In February 2016, over a hundred thousand people signed a petition in just twenty-four hours, calling for a boycott of Sony Music and all other Sony-affiliated businesses after rape allegations against music producer Dr. Luke were made by musical artist Kesha. Kesha asked a New York City Supreme Court to free her from her contract with Sony Music but the court denied the request, prompting widespread public and media response.

question: How many people signed a petition to boycott Sony Music in 2016? 

answer: over a hundred thousand
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: Over the past two years,[clarification needed] dozens of rights-holders, including Sony Music, have sent complaints about Wikipedia.org directly to Google to have content removed.

question: What search engine company giant has Sony sent requests to regarding content on a website? 

answer: Google

question: What website does Sony have complaints against? 

answer: Wikipedia.org
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In July 2013, Sony Music withdrew from the Greek market due to an economic crisis. Albums released by Sony Music in Greece from domestic and foreign artists are carried by Feelgood Records.

question: In what year did Sony pull out of the Greek market? 

answer: 2013

question: What label for the Greek market were artists on under the Sony umbrella? 

answer: Feelgood Records
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In March 2012, Sony Music reportedly closed its Philippines office due to piracy, causing to move distribution of SME in the Philippines to Ivory Music.

question: In what year did Sony shut down their offices in the Philippines? 

answer: 2012
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: Doug Morris, who was head of Warner Music Group, then Universal Music, became chairman and CEO of the company on July 1, 2011. Sony Music underwent a restructuring after Morris' arrival. He was joined by L.A. Reid, who became the chairman and CEO of Epic Records. Under Reid, multiple artists from the Jive half of the former RCA/Jive Label Group moved to Epic. Peter Edge became the new CEO of the RCA Records unit. The RCA Music Group closed down Arista, J Records and Jive Records in October 2011, with the artists from those labels being moved to RCA Records.

question: What famous music producer became CEO of Epic Records? 

answer: L.A. Reid

question: Who joined the CEO of Epic Records in becoming the CEO of Sony Music? 

answer: Doug Morris

question: In what year did he become the CEO of Sony Music? 

answer: 2011

question: Who became the CEO of RCA Records? 

answer: Peter Edge

question: What labels did RCA disband in 2011? 

answer: Arista, J Records and Jive Records
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In the 1980s to early 1990s, there was a CBS imprint label in the US known as CBS Associated Records. Tony Martell, veteran CBS and Epic Records A&R Vice President was head of this label and signed artists including Ozzy Osbourne, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer. This label was a part of (Epic/Portrait/Associated) wing of sub labels at CBS which shared the same national and regional staff as the rest of Epic Records and was a part of the full CBS Records worldwide distribution system.

question: Name 3 artists that CBS Associated Records signed on in the 80s and 90s? 

answer: Ozzy Osbourne, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1986, CBS sold its music publishing arm, CBS Songs, to Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman for $125 million making it the foundation of their SBK Entertainment.

question: In what year did CBS sell CBS Songs? 

answer: 1986

question: How much was the sale of CBS Songs? 

answer: $125 million

question: Who were the 3 people who bought CBS Songs? 

answer: Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: By 1987, CBS was the only "big three" American TV network to have a co-owned record company. ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Records, later known as BMG).

question: In what year was CBS the only network to also have a record company? 

answer: 1987

question: What label did ABC sell in 1979? 

answer: MCA Records

question: What label did NBC sell in 1986? 

answer: RCA

question: Who bought RCA? 

answer: Ge
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: On November 17, 1987, SCA acquired CBS Records, which hosted such acts as Michael Jackson, for US$2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name. CBS Corporation founded a new CBS Records in 2006, which is distributed by Sony through its RED subsidiary.

question: In what year did SCA buy CBS Records? 

answer: 1987

question: Who was the biggest artist that CBS had? 

answer: Michael Jackson

question: How much did SCA pay for CBS Records? 

answer: $2 billion

question: In what year did the CBS Corporation begin another CBS Records? 

answer: 2006

question: Who distributes CBS Records material? 

answer: Sony through its RED subsidiary
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1989, CBS Records re-entered the music publishing business by acquiring Nashville music publisher Tree International Publishing for more than $30 million.

question: In what year did CBS Records buy out Tree International Publishing? 

answer: 1989

question: How much did CBS Records pay for Tree International Publishing? 

answer: $30 million

question: In what city was Tree International Publishing located? 

answer: Nashville
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: RCA/Jive Label Group CEO Barry Weiss left the company in March 2011 to become the new CEO of Island Def Jam and Universal Republic, which were both part of Universal Music Group. Weiss had been the RCA/Jive Label Group CEO since 2008 and was head of Jive Records since 1991.

question: In what year did CEO of RCA/Jive Barry Weiss leave? 

answer: 2011

question: What company did Barry Weiss move to? 

answer: Island Def Jam and Universal Republic

question: When did Barry Weiss become CEO of RCA/Jive? 

answer: 2008

question: When did Barry Weiss become head of Jive Records? 

answer: 1991
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: On October 11, 2011, Doug Morris announced that Mel Lewinter had been named Executive Vice President of Label Strategy. Lewinter previously served as chairman and CEO of Universal Motown Republic Group. In January 2012, Dennis Kooker was named President of Global Digital Business and US Sales.

question: Who was promoted to Executive VP of Label Strategy in 2011? 

answer: Mel Lewinter

question: Who became President of Global Digital Business and US Sales in 2012? 

answer: Dennis Kooker
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In August 2004, Sony entered joint venture with equal partner Bertelsmann, by merging Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group, Germany, to establish Sony BMG Music Entertainment. However Sony continued to operate its Japanese music business independently from Sony BMG while BMG Japan was made part of the merger.

question: In what year did Sony and BMG Germany merge? 

answer: 2004
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: On August 5, 2008, SCA and Bertelsmann announced that Sony had agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. Sony completed its acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the companies' joint venture on October 1, 2008. The company, once again named Sony Music Entertainment Inc., became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation through its US subsidiary SCA. The last few albums to feature a Sony BMG logo were Thriller 25 by Michael Jackson, I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido. A temporary logo was unveiled beginning December 1, 2008. The present logo was unveiled in March 2009.

question: In what year did Sony take BMG's half stake in the company? 

answer: 2008

question: Name one of the final albums to ever have the Sony BMG label? 

answer: Thriller 25 by Michael Jackson, I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido

question: When was Sony's new logo revealed to the public? 

answer: 2009
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: On July 1, 2009, SME and IODA announced their global strategic partnership to leverage combined worldwide online retail distribution networks and complementary technologies to support independent labels and music rightsholders.

question: What labels strove to support indie labels and music rightsholders? 

answer: SME and IODA

question: In what year did they partner in order to do so? 

answer: 2009
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In March 2010, Sony Corp has partnered with The Michael Jackson Company with a contract of more than $250 million, the largest deal in recorded music history.

question: Who did Sony partner with to create the biggest deal ever? 

answer: Michael Jackson Company

question: How much was the partnership worth? 

answer: $250 million

question: In what year was the partnership initiated? 

answer: 2010
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: The merger made Columbia and Epic sister labels to RCA Records, which was once owned by RCA which also owned CBS rival NBC. It also started the process of bringing BMG's Arista Records back under common ownership with its former parent Columbia Pictures, a Sony division since 1989, and also brought Arista founder Clive Davis back into the fold. Davis is still with Sony Music as Chief Creative Officer.

question: Columbia Pictures has been owned by Sony since what year? 

answer: 1989

question: Who is the CCO of Sony Music? 

answer: Clive Davis
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: In 1995, Sony and Michael Jackson formed a joint venture which merged Sony's music publishing operations with Jackson's ATV Music to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

question: In what year did the merger take place? 

answer: 1995
Title: Sony_Music_Entertainment
Context: Sony renamed the record company Sony Music Entertainment (SME) on January 1, 1991, fulfilling the terms set under the 1988 buyout, which granted only a transitional license to the CBS trademark. The CBS Associated label was renamed Epic Associated. Also on January 1, 1991, to replace the CBS label, Sony reintroduced the Columbia label worldwide, which it previously held in the United States and Canada only, after it acquired the international rights to the trademark from EMI in 1990. Japan is the only country where Sony does not have rights to the Columbia name as it is controlled by Nippon Columbia, an unrelated company. Thus, until this day, Sony Music Entertainment Japan does not use the Columbia trademark for Columbia label recordings from outside Japan which are issued in Japan. The Columbia Records trademark's rightsholder in Spain was Bertelsmann Music Group, Germany, which Sony Music subsequently subsumed via a 2004 merger, followed by a 2008 buyout.

question: In what year did the name Sony Music Entertainment become the new name of Sony's record label? 

answer: 1991

question: In what year did CBS Associated become Epic Associated? 

answer: 1991

question: What is the only country where Sony has no rights to the Columbia label? 

answer: Japan

question: Who owns the rights to the Columbia label in Japan? 

answer: Nippon Columbia
Title: Oklahoma_City
Context: Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 620,602 as of July 2014. As of 2014, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,322,429, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area. Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural (watershed). The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county or borough).

question: What is the capital of Oklahoma? 

answer: Oklahoma City

question: Which city is the largest in Oklahoma? 

answer: Oklahoma City

question: What was the population of Oklahoma city in 2014? 

answer: 1,322,429
Title: Oklahoma_City
Context: Oklahoma City, lying in the Great Plains region, features one of the largest livestock markets in the world. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy. The city is situated in the middle of an active oil field and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs large numbers of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (these two sites house several offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

question: Which region is Oklahoma City a part of? 

answer: Great Plains region

question: What offices employ US transportation and Air force bases? 

answer: Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Title: Oklahoma_City
Context: Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor and is one of the primary travel corridors into neighboring Texas and Mexico. Located in the Frontier Country region of the state, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. The city was the scene of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died. It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

question: What corridor is Oklahoma City situated in? 

answer: I-35 Corridor

question: When was the city founded? 

answer: 1889

question: When was the Oklahoma City bombing? 

answer: 1995

question: What was the name of the building involved in the bombing? 

answer: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Title: Oklahoma_City
Context: Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the area known as the "Unassigned Lands" was opened for settlement in an event known as "The Land Run". Some 10,000 homesteaders settled the area that would become the capital of Oklahoma. The town grew quickly; the population doubled between 1890 and 1900. Early leaders of the development of the city included Anton Classen, John Shartel, Henry Overholser and James W. Maney.

question: What was the name of the land before being called Oklahoma City? 

answer: Unassigned Lands

question: Who was an early leader of the city? 

answer: James W. Maney