Ray Benson
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Ray Benson is an American musician, singer, and bandleader best known as the longtime frontman of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ray Benson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13524706 — 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 Benson Context triple: [Asleep at the Wheel, foundedBy, Ray Benson]
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A.
Reese Wynans
Reese Wynans is an American keyboardist best known for his work with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, as well as for his extensive career as a sought-after session and touring musician in blues and rock.
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B.
Jay DeMarcus
Jay DeMarcus is an American musician and record producer best known as the bassist and harmony vocalist of the country music group Rascal Flatts.
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C.
Jimmie Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a key figure in the Texas blues scene.
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D.
Larry Joe Campbell
Larry Joe Campbell is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Andy on the sitcom "According to Jim" and various character roles in television and film.
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E.
Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell is an American multi-instrumentalist and producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan and numerous folk, rock, and Americana artists.
- 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 Benson Target entity description: Ray Benson is an American musician, singer, and bandleader best known as the longtime frontman of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
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A.
Reese Wynans
Reese Wynans is an American keyboardist best known for his work with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, as well as for his extensive career as a sought-after session and touring musician in blues and rock.
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B.
Jay DeMarcus
Jay DeMarcus is an American musician and record producer best known as the bassist and harmony vocalist of the country music group Rascal Flatts.
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C.
Jimmie Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a key figure in the Texas blues scene.
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D.
Larry Joe Campbell
Larry Joe Campbell is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Andy on the sitcom "According to Jim" and various character roles in television and film.
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E.
Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell is an American multi-instrumentalist and producer best known for his work with Bob Dylan and numerous folk, rock, and Americana artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1969 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Asleep at the Wheel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyle Lovett NERFINISHED ⓘ Merle Haggard NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | Austin, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Ray Benson Seifert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-03-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Seifert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Asleep at the Wheel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
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Western swing ⓘ country music ⓘ swing ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Sam Seifert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | about 2.01 m ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Asleep at the Wheel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ray Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | longtime frontman of Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel ⓘ |
| notableRole | promoter of Western swing music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Asleep at the Wheel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
album "A Little Piece" ⓘ album "Beyond Time" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Ray Benson" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| positionHeld | frontman of Asleep at the Wheel ⓘ |
| residence | Austin, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Diana Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.raybenson.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 Benson Description of subject: Ray Benson is an American musician, singer, and bandleader best known as the longtime frontman of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.