Max Roach
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Max Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz rhythm.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Roach canonical | 168 |
| Max Roach + 4 | 1 |
| Max Roach recording on Members, Don’t Git Weary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T274498 — 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: Max Roach Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, Max Roach]
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A.
Miles Davis
Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
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C.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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D.
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the development of bebop and one of the most influential musicians in jazz history.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- 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: Max Roach Target entity description: Max Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz rhythm.
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A.
Miles Davis
Miles Davis was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who profoundly shaped the development of modern jazz through landmark albums like "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
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C.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for pioneering jazz fusion and electronic music.
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D.
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the development of bebop and one of the most influential musicians in jazz history.
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E.
Tony Williams
Tony Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with Kanye West and contributions to the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Max Roach Description of subject: Max Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz rhythm.
Referenced by (170)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.