David Silverman
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David Silverman is an American animator and film director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for directing and co-directing major animated features at Pixar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Silverman canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124440 — 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 Silverman Context triple: [Monsters, Inc., coDirector, David Silverman]
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A.
David Gottfried
David Gottfried is an environmentalist and entrepreneur best known for pioneering the global green building movement and co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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D.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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E.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
- 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 Silverman Target entity description: David Silverman is an American animator and film director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for directing and co-directing major animated features at Pixar.
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A.
David Gottfried
David Gottfried is an environmentalist and entrepreneur best known for pioneering the global green building movement and co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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D.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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E.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
animator ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer |
20th Century Fox Television
ⓘ
linked to:
20th Century Fox
Gracie Films ⓘ Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| field |
animation
ⓘ
film direction ⓘ television direction ⓘ |
| genre |
animated film
ⓘ
animated television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Pixar animated films
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linked to:
Disney–Pixar films
The Simpsons ⓘ The Simpsons Movie ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor |
directing The Simpsons Movie
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directing episodes of The Simpsons ⓘ supervising direction on The Simpsons ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bug's Life
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Monsters, Inc. ⓘ The Simpsons ⓘ The Simpsons Movie ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
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 Silverman Description of subject: David Silverman is an American animator and film director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for directing and co-directing major animated features at Pixar.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Patrick Sullivan
subject linked to:
The Simpsons episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"