Heavenly Music
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Heavenly Music is a 1943 American musical fantasy short film that humorously imagines a modern jazz composer defending his art before a jury of classical music greats in the afterlife.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heavenly Music canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13413356 — 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: Heavenly Music Context triple: [16th Academy Awards, bestLiveActionShortSubjectOneReelWinner, Heavenly Music]
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A.
Heavenly Muse
Heavenly Muse is the divine, Christianized source of inspiration Milton appeals to in *Paradise Lost* to guide his epic account of humanity’s fall.
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B.
Heavenly Host
The Heavenly Host is the celestial army of angels and divine beings that serves as the militant and protective force of the High Heavens.
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C.
Music in the Castle of Heaven
Music in the Castle of Heaven is a scholarly and accessible book by conductor John Eliot Gardiner that explores the life, context, and music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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D.
Hymns of the Spirit
Hymns of the Spirit is a 19th-century Unitarian hymnbook compiled by Samuel Longfellow that helped shape liberal Protestant worship in America.
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E.
Heavenly Waters
Heavenly Waters is a traditional constellation family grouping together several water-related constellations in the southern sky.
- 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: Heavenly Music Target entity description: Heavenly Music is a 1943 American musical fantasy short film that humorously imagines a modern jazz composer defending his art before a jury of classical music greats in the afterlife.
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A.
Heavenly Muse
Heavenly Muse is the divine, Christianized source of inspiration Milton appeals to in *Paradise Lost* to guide his epic account of humanity’s fall.
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B.
Heavenly Host
The Heavenly Host is the celestial army of angels and divine beings that serves as the militant and protective force of the High Heavens.
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C.
Music in the Castle of Heaven
Music in the Castle of Heaven is a scholarly and accessible book by conductor John Eliot Gardiner that explores the life, context, and music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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D.
Hymns of the Spirit
Hymns of the Spirit is a 19th-century Unitarian hymnbook compiled by Samuel Longfellow that helped shape liberal Protestant worship in America.
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E.
Heavenly Waters
Heavenly Waters is a traditional constellation family grouping together several water-related constellations in the southern sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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musical fantasy film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| academyAwardsEdition | 16th Academy Awards ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1.37:1 ⓘ |
| award | Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles Salerno Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Josef Berne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ralph Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalizedCharacter |
Franz Liszt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frederic Chopin NERFINISHED ⓘ Johann Sebastian Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ Ludwig van Beethoven NERFINISHED ⓘ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | two-reel short ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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fantasy film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| hasHumorousTone | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | MGM short subjects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Edward Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A modern jazz composer must defend his music before a jury of classical composers in the afterlife. ⓘ |
| producer | Sam Coslow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 21 ⓘ |
| setting | afterlife ⓘ |
| soundMix | mono ⓘ |
| stars |
Eric Blore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Franklyn Farnum NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Brady NERFINISHED ⓘ Fritz Feld NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Royce NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ Rex Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Geray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
acceptance of modern music
ⓘ
contrast between jazz and classical music ⓘ |
| title | Heavenly Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
George R. Bilson
NERFINISHED
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Sam Coslow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Heavenly Music Description of subject: Heavenly Music is a 1943 American musical fantasy short film that humorously imagines a modern jazz composer defending his art before a jury of classical music greats in the afterlife.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.