Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
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The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary that standardizes terms for the instruments, voices, and ensembles used in musical works for cataloging and discovery purposes.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T656843 — 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: Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus Context triple: [Library of Congress authority record, usedIn, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus]
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A.
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms is a controlled vocabulary used to describe what a work is (its genre or form) rather than what it is about, supporting more precise cataloging and discovery in libraries and related institutions.
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B.
DBX
DBX is the stock ticker symbol for Dropbox, Inc., a cloud-based file storage and collaboration company traded on the NASDAQ.
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C.
Music Concourse
Music Concourse is a historic open-air plaza and performance space in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, known for its band shell, fountains, and surrounding cultural institutions.
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D.
UNBIS Thesaurus
The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.
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E.
METS
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is an XML-based standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for complex digital library objects.
- 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: Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus Target entity description: The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary that standardizes terms for the instruments, voices, and ensembles used in musical works for cataloging and discovery purposes.
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A.
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms is a controlled vocabulary used to describe what a work is (its genre or form) rather than what it is about, supporting more precise cataloging and discovery in libraries and related institutions.
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B.
DBX
DBX is the stock ticker symbol for Dropbox, Inc., a cloud-based file storage and collaboration company traded on the NASDAQ.
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C.
Music Concourse
Music Concourse is a historic open-air plaza and performance space in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, known for its band shell, fountains, and surrounding cultural institutions.
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D.
UNBIS Thesaurus
The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.
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E.
METS
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is an XML-based standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for complex digital library objects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controlled vocabulary
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library cataloging tool ⓘ thesaurus ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
music manuscripts
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scores ⓘ sound recordings ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataModel | authority data ⓘ |
| describes |
instrumental ensembles
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musical instruments ⓘ other media of performance ⓘ vocal ensembles ⓘ voices ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
bibliographic description
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library metadata ⓘ music cataloging ⓘ |
| governedBy | Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
authority records
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broader terms ⓘ narrower terms ⓘ preferred terms ⓘ related terms ⓘ scope notes ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Library of Congress music vocabularies
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| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress ⓘ
surface form:
Library of Congress Music Division
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| purpose |
improve discovery of music resources
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standardize terms for musical media of performance ⓘ support cataloging of musical works ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
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surface form:
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials
Library of Congress Subject Headings ⓘ MARC standards ⓘ
surface form:
MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data
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| subjectArea |
music
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music librarianship ⓘ music notation ⓘ |
| supports |
linked data applications in music
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machine-readable cataloging ⓘ |
| usedBy |
archives
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libraries ⓘ museums ⓘ music catalogers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
authority control
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faceted access to music resources ⓘ subject access in library catalogs ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
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surface form:
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials
Library of Congress Subject Headings ⓘ MARC standards ⓘ
surface form:
MARC 382 field
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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: Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus Description of subject: The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary that standardizes terms for the instruments, voices, and ensembles used in musical works for cataloging and discovery purposes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Library of Congress authority record
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usedIn
→
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
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Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
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relatedVocabulary
→
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
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Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
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isPartOf
→
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Library of Congress music vocabularies
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
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hasPart
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Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
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this entity surface form:
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music