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HMV is an international music and entertainment retailer, founded in London, England in 1921. The brand is owned by Hilco Capital and operated by Sunrise Records, except in Japan, where it is owned and operated by Lawson.
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The extracted context around HMV shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, HMV → Backstreet Boys, Canada, D'Angelo, Edward Street, EMI, EMI Music Canada, Foxy Brown, Green Day, Guns N' Roses, His Master's Voice, HMV Canada's, Hot Music Values, Mister Sound, Nipper, NSYNC, Puff Daddy, Ramones, RCA, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Yonge Street Another extracted example is HMV → ARIA Charts Store, Australia, Australian, Brisbane's, CDs, Chaos, Chatswood, Festival Mushroom, Festival Mushroom Records, Festival Mushroom's, HMV Australia, In March, Leading Edge Music, Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall, Parramatta, Pitt Street Mall, Queen Street Mall, Sanity, Sanity's, Southern Hemisphere. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 222 structured relationships around HMV. Examples in this analysis include HMV → Area served → United Kingdom Belgium Canada Ireland Netherlands Japan (Lawson) and HMV → Founded → 20 July 1921; 105 years ago (20 July 1921). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMV | Area served | United Kingdom Belgium Canada Ireland Netherlands Japan (Lawson) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Founded | 20 July 1921; 105 years ago (20 July 1921) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Headquarters | London, England Tokyo, Japan (Lawson) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Industry | Entertainment retailer | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Key people | Philip Halliday (managing director) Toru Noguchi (president and director, Japan) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Owner | Sunrise Records (United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Canada and the Netherlands)[a] Lawson (Japan) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Products | Music film television merchandise technology video games books | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Subsidiaries | Fopp (UK) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Type | Subsidiary | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | Website | www.hmv.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| HMV | is a | international music and entertainment retailer | 0.90 | text |
| Tower Records | instance of | initials by themselves.HMV in the U.S. faced significant competition from rivals | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around HMV bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Shops, Shop and Announced. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For HMV, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects HMV with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around HMV to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — HMV · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout
