David Lasley
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David Lasley was an American singer, songwriter, and backing vocalist known for his distinctive falsetto and extensive session work with major pop and rock artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lasley canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10956466 — 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: David Lasley Context triple: [That's Why I'm Here, hasGuestMusician, David Lasley]
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
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C.
David Soul
David Soul was an American-British actor and singer best known for his role as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch."
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D.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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E.
Gary Lewis
Gary Lewis is a Scottish actor best known for his acclaimed supporting role as the miner father in the film "Billy Elliot."
- 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: David Lasley Target entity description: David Lasley was an American singer, songwriter, and backing vocalist known for his distinctive falsetto and extensive session work with major pop and rock artists.
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
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C.
David Soul
David Soul was an American-British actor and singer best known for his role as Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch."
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D.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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E.
Gary Lewis
Gary Lewis is a Scottish actor best known for his acclaimed supporting role as the miner father in the film "Billy Elliot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Aretha Franklin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bette Midler NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonnie Raitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Boz Scaggs NERFINISHED ⓘ Chaka Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ Dionne Warwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Dusty Springfield NERFINISHED ⓘ James Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Luther Vandross NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Coolidge NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Rundgren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-08-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-12-09 ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Lodgic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rosie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive session work with major pop artists
ⓘ
extensive session work with major rock artists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Missin' Twenty Grand"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
song "Jojo" (as songwriter for Boz Scaggs) ⓘ song "Lead Me On" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "You Bring Me Joy" ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedBackingVocalsFor |
Aretha Franklin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bette Midler NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonnie Raitt NERFINISHED ⓘ James Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Luther Vandross NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Rundgren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Branch, Michigan, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City, New York, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
EMI America Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| vocalType | falsetto ⓘ |
| workedAs | session vocalist ⓘ |
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: David Lasley Description of subject: David Lasley was an American singer, songwriter, and backing vocalist known for his distinctive falsetto and extensive session work with major pop and rock artists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.