question: What record company was founded by the Beatles in 1968?
answer: Apple Records
context: Title: Music West Records
  Passage: Music West Records was an independent record company founded by Allan Kaplan on December 1985 in San Rafael, California.  The company was initially formed to promote Ray Lynch.  During its run, artists released under the record company included Jim Chappell, Kenneth Nash, Chris Spheeris, and Øystein Sevåg.  According to Gary Chappell, the manufacturer for Music West, the artists originated independently, claiming that the company's idea "has a statement that comes directly from the
  Title: Marsha Albert
  Passage: Marsha Albert (born 1948) is credited with being the person who jump-started the early 1960s phenomena known as Beatlemania in the United States when as a 15-year-old girl, on 17 December 1963, she introduced for the first time on American radio a song written and recorded by The Beatles titled I Want to Hold Your Hand (the Beatles' best-selling single worldwide), and that Beatles historian and author Bruce Spizer noted, in 2004, by his stating "Marsha Albert's actions forced a major record company to push up the release date of a debut single from an unknown band during the holiday season, a time when record companies traditionally released no new product."
  Title: Sista Bussen
  Passage: Sista Bussen is a Swedish record company founded in the early 1978 in Stockholm with a Gothenburg branch.  They produced and published music, mainly progg and punk.  In 1981 the Gothenburg section secceded into their own company called Last Buzz.  Sista Bussen were mainly a DIY record company and the artists had to do much of the work themselves.
  Title: Gallo Record Company
  Passage: Gallo Record Company is the largest (and oldest independent) record label in South Africa.  It is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is owned by Times Media Group (formerly Johnnic Communications and Avusa).  The current Gallo Record Company is a hybrid of two rival South African record labels between the 1940s and 1980s: the original Gallo Africa (1926–85) and G.R.C. (Gramophone Record Company, 1939–85).  In 1985 Gallo Africa acquired G.R.C.; as a result, Gallo Africa became known as "Gallo-GRC".  Five years after the acquisition, the company was renamed "Gallo Record Company".
  Title: Motown
  Passage: Motown is an American record company.  The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan.  The name, a portmanteau of "motor" and "town", has also become a nickname for Detroit.  Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success.  In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as the Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence.  During the 1960s, Motown achieved spectacular success for a small record company: 79 records in the Top Ten of the "Billboard" Hot 100 record chart between 1960 and 1969.
  Title: Lon &amp; Derrek Van Eaton
  Passage: Lon & Derrek Van Eaton were an American vocal and multi-instrumentalist duo from Trenton, New Jersey, consisting of brothers Lon and Derrek Van Eaton.  They are best known for their association with the Beatles through the brothers' brief stint on Apple Records, and for their subsequent session work in Los Angeles for producer Richard Perry.  As well as recording their own albums, during the 1970s they appeared on releases by artists including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Martha Reeves and Art Garfunkel.
  Title: Apple Records
  Passage: Apple Records is a record label founded by the Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd.  It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston.  In practice, by the mid-1970s, the roster had become dominated with releases by the former Beatles as solo artists.  Allen Klein managed the label from 1969 to 1973.  It was then managed by Neil Aspinall on behalf of the four Beatles and their heirs.  He retired in 2007 and was replaced by Jeff Jones.
  Title: Cardiant
  Passage: Cardiant is a Finnish heavy metal band.  It was established in city of Hämeenlinna in 2000, but most of band members have been replaced and the current assembly has been working since 2008.  In the early years, the band recorded several demos until the it signed a contract with the record company Underground Symphony.  The first album, Midday Moon, was released in 2005, but the record company did not released it in Europe.  However, other record company, Marquee/Avalon, released it in Japan.
  Title: Cora E.
  Passage: Cora E. (born 1968 in Kiel, Germany as Sylvia Macco) is a former nurse turned hip-hop artist who emerged in the early underground German hip hop culture.  At the time that she came to prominence, she was not only one of the originators, but she was also one of the few females in the industry.  She was one of the very few old-school acts to be taken on by a major record label after she released two singles with Buback record company.  She wrote her own lyrics, and worked independently.  Many pegged her as a rapper but she called herself a "hip hopper."  Despite this, she and another traditionalist group Advanced Chemistry insisted that rap and hip-hop are inseparable.  The social criticisms based on personal experience in her music link her to other Hip-Hop artists in Germany, such as Advanced Chemistry.  Her old school sound interested EMI; they signed her and another female artist, Tic Tac Toe.  She had success with the record company and her first single "Schlüsselkind" (Latchkey Kid) was a hit.
  Title: Trattoria Records
  Passage: Trattoria Records is a Japanese record company.  The record company was founded by Keigo Oyamada in 1993 and is currently owned by Polystar, a group of independent record labels.
citations: Apple Records Lon &amp; Derrek Van Eaton