Asch
E318526
anthropologist
ethnographic filmmaker
family name
novelist
person
playwright
psychologist
record producer
surname
Asch is a surname most notably associated with Sholem Asch, a prominent Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright of the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asch canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3004906 — 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: Asch Context triple: [Sholem Asch, familyName, Asch]
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A.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
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B.
Ehrenstein
Ehrenstein is a locality or district that forms part of the municipality of Blaustein in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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C.
Loewenstein
Loewenstein is a surname of German origin associated with various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Feigl
Feigl is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals, including philosophers, scientists, and artists.
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E.
Adler
Adler is a German surname most famously associated with Alfred Adler, the Austrian physician and founder of individual psychology.
- 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: Asch Target entity description: Asch is a surname most notably associated with Sholem Asch, a prominent Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright of the early 20th century.
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A.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
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B.
Ehrenstein
Ehrenstein is a locality or district that forms part of the municipality of Blaustein in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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C.
Loewenstein
Loewenstein is a surname of German origin associated with various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Feigl
Feigl is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals, including philosophers, scientists, and artists.
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E.
Adler
Adler is a German surname most famously associated with Alfred Adler, the Austrian physician and founder of individual psychology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
ⓘ
ethnographic filmmaker ⓘ family name ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ psychologist ⓘ record producer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Poland ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Polish Jew ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | social psychology ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Asch ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Moses Asch
ⓘ
Sholem Asch ⓘ Solomon Asch ⓘ Tim Asch ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| movement | Yiddish literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Asch conformity experiments
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linked to:
Opinions and Social Pressure (1955)
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| notableWork |
The Apostle
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The Nazarene ⓘ Three Cities ⓘ |
| occupation | founder of Folkways Records ⓘ |
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: Asch Description of subject: Asch is a surname most notably associated with Sholem Asch, a prominent Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright of the early 20th century.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.