ISWC
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ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely distinguish musical works for rights management and cataloging purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISWC canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1920014 — 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: ISWC Context triple: [International Standard Name Identifier, relatedStandard, ISWC]
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A.
ISC
ISC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Science Council, a global non-governmental organization that advances and coordinates international scientific research and policy.
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B.
ISCAS
ISCAS is a premier annual IEEE conference focused on research and innovation in circuits, systems, and related technologies.
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C.
ICS
ICS refers to the Indian Civil Service, the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in India that formed the administrative backbone of colonial governance.
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D.
ICS
ICS is the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the global authority responsible for standardizing the geological time scale and stratigraphic classification.
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E.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
- 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: ISWC Target entity description: ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely distinguish musical works for rights management and cataloging purposes.
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A.
ISC
ISC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Science Council, a global non-governmental organization that advances and coordinates international scientific research and policy.
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B.
ISCAS
ISCAS is a premier annual IEEE conference focused on research and innovation in circuits, systems, and related technologies.
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C.
ICS
ICS refers to the Indian Civil Service, the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in India that formed the administrative backbone of colonial governance.
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D.
ICS
ICS is the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the global authority responsible for standardizing the geological time scale and stratigraphic classification.
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E.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
International Standard
ⓘ
music identifier standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISWC ⓘ |
| administeredBy | ISWC International Agency ⓘ |
| administeredThrough | collective management organizations ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
lyrics
ⓘ
musical compositions ⓘ musical works with or without words ⓘ |
| assignedWhen | a work is registered with a participating society ⓘ |
| assignmentAuthority | authorized registration agencies ⓘ |
| checkDigit | calculated from preceding digits ⓘ |
| contains |
nine digits
ⓘ
one check digit ⓘ one letter prefix ⓘ |
| dataElementsInclude |
music publisher information
ⓘ
names of creators ⓘ shares of rights holders ⓘ title of work ⓘ work type ⓘ |
| definedIn | ISO 15707 ⓘ |
| differenceDescription | ISWC identifies musical works, ISRC identifies sound recordings ⓘ |
| differsFrom | ISRC ⓘ |
| fullName | International Standard Musical Work Code ⓘ |
| globalCoverage | true ⓘ |
| identifierFormat | T-123.456.789-C ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | CISAC ⓘ |
| prefixCharacter | T ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
disambiguation of musical works
ⓘ
rights administration ⓘ royalty distribution ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
IPI number
ⓘ
ISNI ⓘ
linked to:
International Standard Name Identifier
ISRC ⓘ |
| scope |
dramatico-musical works
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musical works ⓘ non-dramatic musical works ⓘ |
| separators | dots and hyphens for readability ⓘ |
| standardNumber | ISO 15707 ⓘ |
| status | active international standard ⓘ |
| uniqueFor | each distinct musical work ⓘ |
| usedBy |
collective management organizations
ⓘ
mechanical rights organizations ⓘ music databases ⓘ music licensing platforms ⓘ music publishers ⓘ performing rights organizations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
identifying musical works
ⓘ
music cataloging ⓘ rights management ⓘ |
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: ISWC Description of subject: ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely distinguish musical works for rights management and cataloging purposes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.