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Ray Teal: Career & Music

Ray Elgin Teal (January 12, 1902 – April 2, 1976) was an American actor who appeared in more than 300 television shows and movies during his 40 year career. His most famous role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on the television series Bonanza (1959–1972), which was only one of dozens of sheriffs on television and in movies that he played during his long and…

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Ray Teal topic overview

The analysis highlights Career and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Ray Teal.

Related topics
62
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
67
Extracted relationships
8
Related term clusters
19
Bridge connections
67

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Acting career · 42 topics
Overview · 12 topics
Early life · 4 topics
Musical career · 3 topics
Death · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Actor
Education
University of California
Born
Ray Elgin Teal (1902-01-12)January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Died
April 2, 1976(1976-04-02) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other name
Ray E. Teal
Spouse
Louise Laraway

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Overview

Early life

Musical career

Acting career

Death

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Ray Teal connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ray Teal shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ray Teal → Ray Elgin Teal (1902-01-12)January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Another extracted example is Ray Teal → April 2, 1976(1976-04-02) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ray Teal

Top relations

Born · 1
Ray Teal → Ray Elgin Teal (1902-01-12)January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Died · 1
Ray Teal → April 2, 1976(1976-04-02) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Education · 1
Ray Teal → University of California
Occupation · 1
Ray Teal → Actor
Other name · 1
Ray Teal → Ray E. Teal
Spouse · 1
Ray Teal → Louise Laraway
Years active · 1
Ray Teal → 1937–1974

Important terminology

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Important terminology

teal series appeared western episode role sheriff abc television cast played career bonanza also ray years 1961 cbs times three

Ray Teal relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 8 structured relationships around Ray Teal. Examples in this analysis include Ray Teal → Born → Ray Elgin Teal (1902-01-12)January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. and Ray Teal → Died → April 2, 1976(1976-04-02) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ray TealBornRay Elgin Teal (1902-01-12)January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.1.00infobox
Ray TealDiedApril 2, 1976(1976-04-02) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.1.00infobox
Ray TealEducationUniversity of California1.00infobox
Ray TealOccupationActor1.00infobox
Ray TealOther nameRay E. Teal1.00infobox
Ray TealSpouseLouise Laraway1.00infobox
Ray TealYears active1937–19741.00infobox
Western Jamboreeinstance ofHe appeared in pictures0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Ray Teal bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Television, Michigan and Career. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ray Teal
    • Television
    • Michigan
    • Career
    • Series
    • Western
    • Movies
    • Episode
    • Teal
    • Actor
    • Film
    • Three
    • Times
  • ray teal
    • Television
    • Michigan
    • Career
    • Series
    • Abc
    • Western
    • Movies
    • Episode
    • Teal
    • Actor
    • Film
    • Three
  • musical career
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Ray
    • Sheriff
    • Arrow
    • Cheyenne
    • Coffee
    • Michigan
    • One
    • Roy
    • Another
    • Bonanza
  • acting career
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Ray
    • Sheriff
    • Arrow
    • Cheyenne
    • Coffee
    • Michigan
    • One
    • Roy
    • Another
    • Bonanza
  • abc
    • Another
    • Appeared
    • Arrow
    • Western
    • Series
    • Later
    • Teal
    • Role
    • Episode
    • Cheyenne
    • Career
    • Cbs
  • anthology series
    • Western
    • Teal
    • Three
    • Abc
    • Cast
    • Sheriff
    • Episode
    • Another
    • Cbs
    • Times
    • Arrow
    • Cheyenne
  • bonanza
    • Coffee
    • Roy
    • Role
    • Sheriff
    • Television
    • Played
    • Cast
    • Movies
    • Film
    • Michigan
    • One
    • California
  • the black arrow
    • Abc
    • Western
    • Cheyenne
    • Another
    • Career
    • Cbs
    • Nbc
    • Roles
    • Years
    • Three
    • Times
    • Series

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ray Teal, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ray Teal with Acting career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Ray Teal — Acting career · splits 25 ⟂ 43
Ray Teal — Overview · splits 55 ⟂ 13
Ray Teal — Early life · splits 63 ⟂ 5
Ray Teal — Musical career · splits 64 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ray Teal

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples8
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ray Teal to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ray Teal · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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