James Ray
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James Ray was an American R&B singer best known for his early 1960s recording of "Got My Mind Set on You," which later became a major hit for George Harrison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Ray canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9465407 — 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: James Ray Context triple: [Got My Mind Set on You, originalVersionPerformer, James Ray]
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A.
Don Raye
Don Raye was an American songwriter best known for his swing-era and boogie-woogie hits, often written in collaboration with lyricist Hughie Prince.
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B.
Charlie Ray
"Charlie Ray" is a track by the artist Ray Ray, likely a hip-hop or rap song given the artist’s naming style.
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C.
Scott Raynor
Scott Raynor is an American drummer best known as the original percussionist for the pop-punk band Blink-182 during their early years in the 1990s.
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D.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Sam Sneed
Sam Sneed is an American hip hop producer and rapper best known for his work with Death Row Records in the 1990s.
- 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: James Ray Target entity description: James Ray was an American R&B singer best known for his early 1960s recording of "Got My Mind Set on You," which later became a major hit for George Harrison.
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A.
Don Raye
Don Raye was an American songwriter best known for his swing-era and boogie-woogie hits, often written in collaboration with lyricist Hughie Prince.
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B.
Charlie Ray
"Charlie Ray" is a track by the artist Ray Ray, likely a hip-hop or rap song given the artist’s naming style.
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C.
Scott Raynor
Scott Raynor is an American drummer best known as the original percussionist for the pop-punk band Blink-182 during their early years in the 1990s.
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D.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Sam Sneed
Sam Sneed is an American hip hop producer and rapper best known for his work with Death Row Records in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rhythm and blues singer ⓘ song ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 1960s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963 ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| influenced | George Harrison ⓘ |
| knownFor | early 1960s recording of "Got My Mind Set on You" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Got My Mind Set on You
ⓘ
If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody ⓘ Itty Bitty Pieces ⓘ |
| occupation |
recording artist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| performer |
George Harrison
ⓘ
James Ray ⓘ James Ray ⓘ James Ray ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, North Carolina ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, District of Columbia
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
| publicationDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Caprice Records
ⓘ
Congress Records ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: James Ray Description of subject: James Ray was an American R&B singer best known for his early 1960s recording of "Got My Mind Set on You," which later became a major hit for George Harrison.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rudy Clark