Max Ochs
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Max Ochs is an American guitarist and folk musician known for his intricate fingerstyle playing and association with the 1960s American primitive guitar movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Ochs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6828688 — 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 Ochs Context triple: [Ochs, hasNotableBearer, Max Ochs]
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A.
Peter Ochs
Peter Ochs was an 18th-century Swiss politician and reformer best known for helping to establish the Helvetic Republic.
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B.
Oz Ostreicher
Oz Ostreicher is a character from the American Pie film series, known as a kind-hearted jock and member of the core friend group.
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C.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
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D.
Michael Haussman
Michael Haussman is an American director and filmmaker best known for his work on high-profile music videos and commercials.
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E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- 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 Ochs Target entity description: Max Ochs is an American guitarist and folk musician known for his intricate fingerstyle playing and association with the 1960s American primitive guitar movement.
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A.
Peter Ochs
Peter Ochs was an 18th-century Swiss politician and reformer best known for helping to establish the Helvetic Republic.
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B.
Oz Ostreicher
Oz Ostreicher is a character from the American Pie film series, known as a kind-hearted jock and member of the core friend group.
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C.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
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D.
Michael Haussman
Michael Haussman is an American director and filmmaker best known for his work on high-profile music videos and commercials.
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E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American primitive guitarist
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folk musician ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1960s folk music scene
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American primitive guitar movement ⓘ Takoma Records ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creativeMedium | acoustic guitar ⓘ |
| culturalMovement |
American folk revival
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linked to:
American folk music revival
American primitive guitar school ⓘ |
| genre |
American primitive guitar
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folk music ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Phil Ochs ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer
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folk singer ⓘ performer ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
John Fahey
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Robbie Basho ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
solo guitar compositions
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traditional folk repertoire ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the 1960s American primitive guitar movement
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intricate fingerstyle guitar playing ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performanceType |
small ensemble performance
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solo performance ⓘ |
| playsStyle | fingerstyle guitar ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Takoma Records
ⓘ
Tompkins Square Records ⓘ |
| relativeType | cousin of Phil Ochs ⓘ |
| workField | music ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Ochs Description of subject: Max Ochs is an American guitarist and folk musician known for his intricate fingerstyle playing and association with the 1960s American primitive guitar movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.