Boosey & Hawkes
E202829
Boosey & Hawkes is a major British music publisher renowned for its catalog of 20th- and 21st-century classical composers and educational music.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boosey & Hawkes canonical | 66 |
| Boosey & Co. | 3 |
| Boosey & Company | 1 |
| Boosey & Hawkes (later editions) | 1 |
| Boosey & Hawkes (selected works) | 1 |
| Boosey & Hawkes HPS 676 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1820933 — 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: Boosey & Hawkes Context triple: [Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", publisher, Boosey & Hawkes]
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M. Witmark & Sons
M. Witmark & Sons was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and influential works by major 20th-century songwriters.
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B.
Handy Brothers Music Company
Handy Brothers Music Company is a music publishing firm established by pioneering blues composer W. C. Handy to promote and distribute his influential works and other early blues music.
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C.
Decca Records
Decca Records is a historic British record label renowned for its influential catalog across jazz, classical, and popular music, having recorded major artists such as Louis Armstrong.
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D.
RCA Victor
RCA Victor was a major American record label and phonograph company, historically significant for its role in the development and popularization of recorded music and audio technology.
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C. B. Fisk, Inc.
C. B. Fisk, Inc. is a renowned American pipe organ building firm celebrated for its handcrafted, historically informed instruments installed in prominent concert halls and churches worldwide.
- 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: Boosey & Hawkes Target entity description: Boosey & Hawkes is a major British music publisher renowned for its catalog of 20th- and 21st-century classical composers and educational music.
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A.
M. Witmark & Sons
M. Witmark & Sons was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and influential works by major 20th-century songwriters.
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B.
Handy Brothers Music Company
Handy Brothers Music Company is a music publishing firm established by pioneering blues composer W. C. Handy to promote and distribute his influential works and other early blues music.
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C.
Decca Records
Decca Records is a historic British record label renowned for its influential catalog across jazz, classical, and popular music, having recorded major artists such as Louis Armstrong.
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D.
RCA Victor
RCA Victor was a major American record label and phonograph company, historically significant for its role in the development and popularization of recorded music and audio technology.
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E.
C. B. Fisk, Inc.
C. B. Fisk, Inc. is a renowned American pipe organ building firm celebrated for its handcrafted, historically informed instruments installed in prominent concert halls and churches worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Boosey & Hawkes Description of subject: Boosey & Hawkes is a major British music publisher renowned for its catalog of 20th- and 21st-century classical composers and educational music.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Britten War Requiem
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Candide (operetta by Leonard Bernstein)
linked to: Boosey & Hawkes
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“Buckaroo Holiday”
subject linked to:
“Saturday Night Waltz”
subject linked to:
Hal Leonard (through Boosey & Hawkes catalog, historically)
linked to: Boosey & Hawkes
subject linked to:
Hal Leonard (through Boosey & Hawkes catalog, historically)
linked to: Boosey & Hawkes
linked to: Boosey & Hawkes