Chris Layton – drums
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Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chris Layton – drums canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6501964 — 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: Chris Layton – drums Context triple: [Double Trouble, notableMemberRole, Chris Layton – drums]
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A.
Chris Herold – drums
Chris Herold is the drummer for the band Kingfish, contributing percussion and rhythmic backing to their performances and recordings.
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B.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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C.
Dan Lumley (drummer)
Dan Lumley is an American punk rock drummer best known for his work with the band Squirtgun and other acts on the Lookout! Records roster.
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D.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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E.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
- 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: Chris Layton – drums Target entity description: Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
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A.
Chris Herold – drums
Chris Herold is the drummer for the band Kingfish, contributing percussion and rhythmic backing to their performances and recordings.
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B.
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Downey is an Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
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C.
Dan Lumley (drummer)
Dan Lumley is an American punk rock drummer best known for his work with the band Squirtgun and other acts on the Lookout! Records roster.
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D.
Steve Jordan (drums)
Steve Jordan is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter renowned for his work with artists like John Mayer, the Rolling Stones, and in the Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman bands.
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E.
David S. Field – drums
David S. Field is a drummer known for performing on the "Bullets" EP.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arc Angels
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Double Trouble ⓘ Grady ⓘ Kenny Wayne Shepherd ⓘ Reese Wynans ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan ⓘ Storyville ⓘ Tommy Shannon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
blues music
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music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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blues rock ⓘ electric blues ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
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percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf | Double Trouble ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s band Double Trouble ⓘ |
| notableWork | Double Trouble ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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musician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Austin, Texas
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linked to:
City of Austin
|
| role | drummer for Double Trouble ⓘ |
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: Chris Layton – drums Description of subject: Chris Layton is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s blues-rock band Double Trouble.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.