The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern
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The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern is a major 19th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads compiled and edited by Allan Cunningham, preserving both traditional and contemporary Scottish music and verse.
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| The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23153993 — 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: The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern Context triple: [Allan Cunningham, notableWork, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern]
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A.
The Scots Musical Museum
The Scots Musical Museum is a landmark late-18th-century collection of traditional Scottish songs and music, famed for including many lyrics contributed and adapted by poet Robert Burns.
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B.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a landmark early 19th-century collection of traditional Scottish ballads and border tales compiled and edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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C.
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs is a landmark late-18th/early-19th-century anthology of Scottish melodies, many with arrangements and contributions from prominent composers and poets, that helped preserve and popularize Scotland’s musical heritage.
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D.
Highland Songs of the Forty-Five
Highland Songs of the Forty-Five is a collection of Gaelic songs and poetry relating to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, compiled and edited by Scottish folklorist John Lorne Campbell.
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E.
Bards of the Gael and Gall
Bards of the Gael and Gall is a collection of translations and studies of early Irish and Norse-Irish poetry that helped introduce Ireland’s medieval literary heritage to an English-speaking audience.
- 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: The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern Target entity description: The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern is a major 19th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads compiled and edited by Allan Cunningham, preserving both traditional and contemporary Scottish music and verse.
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A.
The Scots Musical Museum
The Scots Musical Museum is a landmark late-18th-century collection of traditional Scottish songs and music, famed for including many lyrics contributed and adapted by poet Robert Burns.
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B.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a landmark early 19th-century collection of traditional Scottish ballads and border tales compiled and edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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C.
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs is a landmark late-18th/early-19th-century anthology of Scottish melodies, many with arrangements and contributions from prominent composers and poets, that helped preserve and popularize Scotland’s musical heritage.
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D.
Highland Songs of the Forty-Five
Highland Songs of the Forty-Five is a collection of Gaelic songs and poetry relating to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, compiled and edited by Scottish folklorist John Lorne Campbell.
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E.
Bards of the Gael and Gall
Bards of the Gael and Gall is a collection of translations and studies of early Irish and Norse-Irish poetry that helped introduce Ireland’s medieval literary heritage to an English-speaking audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Allan Cunningham (poet)