International Standard Music Number
E43617
The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely catalog and manage printed music publications.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISMN | 4 |
| International Standard Music Number canonical | 4 |
| ISMN system | 1 |
| International Standard Music Number system | 1 |
| International Standard Musical Work Code | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341772 — 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: International Standard Music Number Context triple: [International Standard Book Number, relatedStandard, International Standard Music Number]
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A.
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a globally recognized numeric identifier assigned to books and similar publications to uniquely distinguish and catalog them.
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B.
International Standard Serial Number
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit code used worldwide to uniquely identify serial publications such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
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C.
International Standard Name Identifier
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a globally recognized unique identifier used to distinguish the public identities of contributors such as authors, musicians, researchers, and organizations in the creative and scholarly sectors.
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D.
USIC
USIC is the commonly used acronym for the United States Intelligence Community, the federation of U.S. government agencies responsible for intelligence and national security activities.
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E.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
- 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: International Standard Music Number Target entity description: The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely catalog and manage printed music publications.
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A.
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a globally recognized numeric identifier assigned to books and similar publications to uniquely distinguish and catalog them.
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B.
International Standard Serial Number
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit code used worldwide to uniquely identify serial publications such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
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C.
International Standard Name Identifier
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a globally recognized unique identifier used to distinguish the public identities of contributors such as authors, musicians, researchers, and organizations in the creative and scholarly sectors.
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D.
USIC
USIC is the commonly used acronym for the United States Intelligence Community, the federation of U.S. government agencies responsible for intelligence and national security activities.
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E.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international standard
ⓘ
music publication identifier ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
International Standard Music Number
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ISMN
|
| appliesTo |
anthologies of music
ⓘ
digital representations of notated music when treated as publications ⓘ individual parts of a musical work ⓘ microform editions of printed music ⓘ scores ⓘ sets of parts ⓘ sheet music ⓘ songbooks ⓘ vocal scores ⓘ |
| category |
bibliographic control
ⓘ
information standards ⓘ music publishing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | International ⓘ |
| describedAs | globally recognized identifier for printed music publications ⓘ |
| governingBody | International ISMN Agency ⓘ |
| identifierType |
machine-readable identifier
ⓘ
numeric identifier ⓘ |
| introduced | 1993 ⓘ |
| notApplicableTo |
audio CDs
ⓘ
sound recordings ⓘ streaming audio ⓘ |
| predecessor | publisher-specific music plate numbers ⓘ |
| purpose |
enable efficient rights management for music publishers
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facilitate distribution of printed music ⓘ facilitate ordering of printed music ⓘ support inventory control for music retailers ⓘ support library cataloging of music ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ISBN
ⓘ
ISSN ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
International Standard Book Number
ⓘ
International Standard Serial Number ⓘ |
| scope |
notated music
ⓘ
printed music publications ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| standardNumber | ISO 10957 ⓘ |
| use |
catalog printed music publications
ⓘ
manage printed music inventories ⓘ uniquely identify printed music ⓘ |
| usedBy |
collecting societies
ⓘ
libraries ⓘ music distributors ⓘ music publishers ⓘ music retailers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bibliographic databases
ⓘ
library catalogs ⓘ supply chain systems for 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: International Standard Music Number Description of subject: The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) is a globally recognized identifier used to uniquely catalog and manage printed music publications.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ISMN
this entity surface form:
International Standard Musical Work Code
International Standard Music Number
→
abbreviation
→
International Standard Music Number
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
ISMN
this entity surface form:
International Standard Music Number system
this entity surface form:
ISMN
this entity surface form:
ISMN