Breitkopf & Härtel
E272028
Breitkopf & Härtel is a historic German music publishing house, founded in the 18th century, renowned for its authoritative editions of classical composers’ works.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Breitkopf & Härtel canonical | 41 |
| Breitkopf & Härtel (early edition) | 1 |
| Breitkopf & Härtel music engraving workshop | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2507348 — 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: Breitkopf & Härtel Context triple: [Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, publisher, Breitkopf & Härtel]
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A.
Boosey & Hawkes
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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B.
Eher Verlag
Eher Verlag was the official publishing house of the Nazi Party in Germany, best known for issuing Adolf Hitler’s manifesto "Mein Kampf."
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C.
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a renowned German classical music record label known for its distinctive yellow label and extensive catalog of leading orchestras, conductors, and soloists.
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D.
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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E.
Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is a major German multinational media, services, and education conglomerate known for owning prominent publishing and broadcasting companies 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: Breitkopf & Härtel Target entity description: Breitkopf & Härtel is a historic German music publishing house, founded in the 18th century, renowned for its authoritative editions of classical composers’ works.
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A.
Boosey & Hawkes
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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B.
Eher Verlag
Eher Verlag was the official publishing house of the Nazi Party in Germany, best known for issuing Adolf Hitler’s manifesto "Mein Kampf."
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C.
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a renowned German classical music record label known for its distinctive yellow label and extensive catalog of leading orchestras, conductors, and soloists.
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D.
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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E.
Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is a major German multinational media, services, and education conglomerate known for owning prominent publishing and broadcasting companies worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Breitkopf & Härtel Description of subject: Breitkopf & Härtel is a historic German music publishing house, founded in the 18th century, renowned for its authoritative editions of classical composers’ works.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
subject surface form:
BWV
subject surface form:
Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9
subject surface form:
Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1
subject surface form:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
subject surface form:
Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
subject surface form:
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
subject surface form:
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11
subject surface form:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
subject surface form:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14
subject surface form:
Humoreske in B-flat major, Op. 20
this entity surface form:
Breitkopf & Härtel music engraving workshop
this entity surface form:
Breitkopf & Härtel (early edition)