Ray Toro
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Ray Toro is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Toro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027967 — 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: Ray Toro Context triple: [My Chemical Romance, member, Ray Toro]
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A.
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Chris Stein
Chris Stein is an American guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the influential new wave band Blondie.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Earl Slick
Earl Slick is an American rock guitarist best known for his longtime collaborations with David Bowie and John Lennon.
- 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: Ray Toro Target entity description: Ray Toro is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance.
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A.
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a longtime guitarist and vocalist for the band Styx.
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B.
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a prolific session musician for numerous rock and Americana artists.
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C.
Chris Stein
Chris Stein is an American guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the influential new wave band Blondie.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Earl Slick
Earl Slick is an American rock guitarist best known for his longtime collaborations with David Bowie and John Lennon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1994 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
My Chemical Romance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reggie and the Full Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rodneys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Raymond Toro-Ortiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-07-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 2016-11-18 ⓘ |
| education | Kearny High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Puerto Rican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Toro-Ortiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
emo ⓘ pop punk ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Raymond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark brown ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing vocalist of My Chemical Romance
ⓘ
lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance ⓘ |
| memberOf | My Chemical Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ray Toro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love NERFINISHED ⓘ May Death Never Stop You NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kearny, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
backing vocalist of My Chemical Romance
ⓘ
lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance ⓘ |
| soloAlbum | Remember the Laughter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Christa Toro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMusicalCareer | 1990s ⓘ |
| website | https://www.raytoro.com/ ⓘ |
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: Ray Toro Description of subject: Ray Toro is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.