Ray Dalton
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Ray Dalton is an American singer and songwriter best known for his soulful vocals on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit single “Can’t Hold Us.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Dalton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5285464 — 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 Dalton Context triple: [Macklemore, collaboratedWith, Ray Dalton]
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A.
Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth was a prolific American film director and producer of the early to mid-20th century, known for his work on musicals, comedies, and crime films during Hollywood’s studio era.
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B.
Edgar Ross
Edgar Ross is a high-ranking U.S. government agent and primary antagonist in the video game Red Dead Redemption, known for manipulating and ultimately betraying protagonist John Marston.
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C.
John Burnett
John Burnett is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
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D.
Ernest Young
Ernest Young is a prominent American constitutional law scholar and professor at Duke University School of Law.
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
- 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 Dalton Target entity description: Ray Dalton is an American singer and songwriter best known for his soulful vocals on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit single “Can’t Hold Us.”
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A.
Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth was a prolific American film director and producer of the early to mid-20th century, known for his work on musicals, comedies, and crime films during Hollywood’s studio era.
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B.
Edgar Ross
Edgar Ross is a high-ranking U.S. government agent and primary antagonist in the video game Red Dead Redemption, known for manipulating and ultimately betraying protagonist John Marston.
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C.
John Burnett
John Burnett is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
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D.
Ernest Young
Ernest Young is a prominent American constitutional law scholar and professor at Duke University School of Law.
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2010 ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Rap Album (as featured artist on The Heist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Macklemore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1991-05-10 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | vocalist ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.raydalton.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
feature on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis single Can’t Hold Us
ⓘ
soulful vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
If You Fall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In My Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Can’t Hold Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| performedAt | international music festivals ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| vocalPerformanceOn | Can’t Hold Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Dalton Description of subject: Ray Dalton is an American singer and songwriter best known for his soulful vocals on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit single “Can’t Hold Us.”
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.