Ray Cooper
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Ray Cooper is a renowned English percussionist and session musician known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with major rock and pop artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ray Cooper canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659061 — 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 Cooper Context triple: [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, musicBy, Ray Cooper]
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A.
K.C. Cooper
K.C. Cooper is the teenage undercover spy protagonist of the Disney Channel series "K.C. Undercover," known for balancing high school life with secret missions.
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B.
Cecil Cooper
Cecil Cooper is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager, best known for his productive years with the Milwaukee Brewers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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D.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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 Cooper Target entity description: Ray Cooper is a renowned English percussionist and session musician known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with major rock and pop artists.
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A.
K.C. Cooper
K.C. Cooper is the teenage undercover spy protagonist of the Disney Channel series "K.C. Undercover," known for balancing high school life with secret missions.
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B.
Cecil Cooper
Cecil Cooper is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager, best known for his productive years with the Milwaukee Brewers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
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D.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English musician
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human ⓘ percussionist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
pop music scene
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rock music scene ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Billy Joel
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Carly Simon ⓘ Elton John ⓘ Eric Clapton ⓘ George Harrison ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Pink Floyd ⓘ Procol Harum ⓘ Rick Wakeman ⓘ Roger Daltrey ⓘ The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music performance
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recording industry ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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marimba ⓘ percussion ⓘ timpani ⓘ vibraphone ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dynamic live percussion performances
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extensive work as a session musician ⓘ theatrical stage presence ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ray Cooper ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
expressive performance style
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use of a large array of percussion instruments on stage ⓘ |
| notableWork |
concert tours with Elton John
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live performances with Elton John ⓘ session work on rock and pop recordings ⓘ |
| occupation |
percussionist
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record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
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 Cooper Description of subject: Ray Cooper is a renowned English percussionist and session musician known for his dynamic performances and collaborations with major rock and pop artists.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.