David Graham
E140200
David Graham is a voice actor best known for narrating the iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial that introduced Apple’s Macintosh computer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Graham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T300178 — 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 Graham Context triple: [1984 Super Bowl commercial, narrationBy, David Graham]
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A.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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E.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
- 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 Graham Target entity description: David Graham is a voice actor best known for narrating the iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial that introduced Apple’s Macintosh computer.
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A.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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E.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
television commercial ⓘ |
| advertises |
Apple Macintosh computers
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surface form:
Apple Macintosh computer
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstAiredDuring | Super Bowl XVIII ⓘ |
| knownFor | narrating the 1984 Super Bowl commercial for Apple Macintosh ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | voiceover for 1984 Apple Macintosh Super Bowl commercial ⓘ |
| occupation | voice actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
1984 (Apple Macintosh commercial)
ⓘ
surface form:
1984 Apple Macintosh Super Bowl commercial
|
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 Graham Description of subject: David Graham is a voice actor best known for narrating the iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial that introduced Apple’s Macintosh computer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.