The Scots Musical Museum
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Burns song tradition | 1 |
| The Scots Musical Museum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1364890 — 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 Scots Musical Museum Context triple: [Robert Burns, notableWork, The Scots Musical Museum]
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A.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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B.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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C.
Poems of Robert Burns
Poems of Robert Burns is a celebrated collection of verse by the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns, renowned for its use of Scots language and its enduring influence on Scottish literature and culture.
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D.
Schoolroom Poets
The Schoolroom Poets were a group of 19th-century American poets, including figures like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier, whose morally instructive and accessible verse was widely memorized and recited in schools.
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E.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
- 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 Scots Musical Museum Target entity description: 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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A.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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B.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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C.
Poems of Robert Burns
Poems of Robert Burns is a celebrated collection of verse by the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns, renowned for its use of Scots language and its enduring influence on Scottish literature and culture.
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D.
Schoolroom Poets
The Schoolroom Poets were a group of 19th-century American poets, including figures like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier, whose morally instructive and accessible verse was widely memorized and recited in schools.
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E.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish cultural work
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music anthology ⓘ song collection ⓘ |
| aim | to collect and preserve Scottish national airs ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edinburgh musical life in the late 18th century
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Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ |
| compiler | James Johnson ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Auld Lang Syne
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Green Grow the Rashes, O ⓘ John Anderson, My Jo ⓘ A Red, Red Rose ⓘ
surface form:
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
O, Whistle, and I'll Come to Ye, My Lad ⓘ Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw ⓘ Scots Wha Hae ⓘ The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond ⓘ
surface form:
The Banks o' Doon
Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon ⓘ |
| contributor | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| editorialRoleOf | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| finalVolumePublicationYear | 1803 ⓘ |
| firstVolumePublicationYear | 1787 ⓘ |
| format | voice and simple accompaniment ⓘ |
| genre |
folk song collection
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traditional Scottish music ⓘ |
| hasContributorRole | Robert Burns as reviser and adapter of texts ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Volume 1
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Volume 2 ⓘ Volume 3 ⓘ Volume 4 ⓘ Volume 5 ⓘ Volume 6 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | major source for the study of Scottish song tradition ⓘ |
| influenced | later collections of Scottish song ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| mediaType | printed music book ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inclusion of Robert Burns lyrics
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preservation of traditional Scottish melodies ⓘ |
| numberOfSongs | over 600 ⓘ |
| numberOfVolumes | 6 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodEnd | 1803 ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodStart | 1787 ⓘ |
| publisher | James Johnson ⓘ |
| subject |
Scottish folk songs
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Scottish national music ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
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Subject: The Scots Musical Museum Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (2)
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this entity surface form:
Robert Burns song tradition