James MacDonald
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James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James MacDonald canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T504918 — 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: James MacDonald Context triple: [Cinderella (1950 film), voiceCastMember, James MacDonald]
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A.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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B.
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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C.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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D.
James Card
James Card was an influential American film archivist and curator, best known for his pioneering work in film preservation and his role in inspiring major film culture institutions such as the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- 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: James MacDonald Target entity description: James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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A.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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B.
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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C.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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D.
James Card
James Card was an influential American film archivist and curator, best known for his pioneering work in film preservation and his role in inspiring major film culture institutions such as the Telluride Film Festival.
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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sound effects artist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Walt Disney Productions
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linked to:
The Walt Disney Company
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| fieldOfWork |
animation sound design
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voice acting ⓘ |
| genre | animation ⓘ |
| industry |
animation industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative sound effects for Disney cartoons
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voice acting in Disney animated films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableEmployer | Disney ⓘ |
| notableRole |
providing character voices in Disney films
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providing sound effects for Disney animated shorts ⓘ |
| notableWork | classic Disney animated films ⓘ |
| occupation |
sound effects artist
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voice actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Burbank, California ⓘ |
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: James MacDonald Description of subject: James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.