Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company
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Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company was an early 20th-century American music publishing firm associated with popular Tin Pan Alley songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5780184 — 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: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company Context triple: [Tessie, originalPublisher, Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company]
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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.
Irving Berlin Music Corporation
Irving Berlin Music Corporation is a music publishing company established to manage and promote the extensive catalog of songs written by American composer and songwriter Irving Berlin.
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C.
Gershwin estate
The Gershwin estate is the legal entity that manages and protects the intellectual property and legacy of composers George and Ira Gershwin, overseeing licensing and use of their works.
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D.
Ballard family music publishers
Ballard family music publishers were a prominent French dynasty of music printers and publishers active from the Renaissance through the 18th century, known for shaping the dissemination of vocal and instrumental music in France.
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E.
Zomba Music Publishers
Zomba Music Publishers is a music publishing company best known as part of the influential Zomba Group, which managed and developed a wide range of successful songwriters and catalogs in pop and contemporary music.
- 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: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company Target entity description: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company was an early 20th-century American music publishing firm associated with popular Tin Pan Alley songs.
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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.
Irving Berlin Music Corporation
Irving Berlin Music Corporation is a music publishing company established to manage and promote the extensive catalog of songs written by American composer and songwriter Irving Berlin.
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C.
Gershwin estate
The Gershwin estate is the legal entity that manages and protects the intellectual property and legacy of composers George and Ira Gershwin, overseeing licensing and use of their works.
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D.
Ballard family music publishers
Ballard family music publishers were a prominent French dynasty of music printers and publishers active from the Renaissance through the 18th century, known for shaping the dissemination of vocal and instrumental music in France.
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E.
Zomba Music Publishers
Zomba Music Publishers is a music publishing company best known as part of the influential Zomba Group, which managed and developed a wide range of successful songwriters and catalogs in pop and contemporary music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
music publishing company ⓘ |
| activeIn | sheet music market ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tin Pan Alley ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Tin Pan Alley, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Tin Pan Alley
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork | popular song publishing ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Harry Von Tilzer
ⓘ
linked to:
Marcus Witmark
songwriter-publisher Harry Von Tilzer ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley songs
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early American popular music industry ⓘ |
| industry | music publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorksPublished | English ⓘ |
| location |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing popular American songs ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tin Pan Alley music industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Tin Pan Alley
|
| publishingFormat | sheet music ⓘ |
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: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company Description of subject: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company was an early 20th-century American music publishing firm associated with popular Tin Pan Alley songs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
song "Tessie"