Bob Giraldi
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Bob Giraldi is an American film and music video director known for his influential work in the 1980s, including iconic videos for major artists like Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Giraldi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3360479 — 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: Bob Giraldi Context triple: [Hello (Lionel Richie song), musicVideoDirector, Bob Giraldi]
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A.
James Spader
James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
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B.
Tom Burke
Tom Burke is an English actor known for his roles in film and television, including playing Cormoran Strike in the BBC adaptation of J.K. Rowling's detective novels.
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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Michael York
Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
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E.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
- 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: Bob Giraldi Target entity description: Bob Giraldi is an American film and music video director known for his influential work in the 1980s, including iconic videos for major artists like Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
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A.
James Spader
James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
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B.
Tom Burke
Tom Burke is an English actor known for his roles in film and television, including playing Cormoran Strike in the BBC adaptation of J.K. Rowling's detective novels.
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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Michael York
Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
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E.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial director
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Beat It
ⓘ
surface form:
Beat It (Michael Jackson music video)
Dinner Rush ⓘ
surface form:
Dinner Rush (film)
Hello (Lionel Richie music video) ⓘ Love Is a Battlefield ⓘ
surface form:
Love Is a Battlefield (Pat Benatar music video)
Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial (1984) ⓘ Running on Empty ⓘ
surface form:
Running on Empty (music video)
Say Say Say ⓘ
surface form:
Say Say Say (music video)
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| employer | Giraldi Suarez Productions ⓘ |
| familyName | Giraldi ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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music videos ⓘ television commercials ⓘ |
| genre | music video ⓘ |
| givenName | Bob ⓘ |
| hasOccupationSpecialization |
celebrity-endorsed television commercials
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narrative-driven music videos ⓘ |
| influenced | later music video directors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing commercials
ⓘ
influential music videos of the 1980s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bob Giraldi self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped define narrative style of 1980s music videos ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beat It
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surface form:
Beat It (music video)
Dinner Rush ⓘ Hello (Lionel Richie music video) ⓘ Love Is a Battlefield ⓘ
surface form:
Love Is a Battlefield (music video)
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| occupation |
commercial director
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film director ⓘ music video director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Lionel Richie
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Michael Jackson ⓘ Pat Benatar ⓘ Paul McCartney ⓘ Pepsi ⓘ |
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: Bob Giraldi Description of subject: Bob Giraldi is an American film and music video director known for his influential work in the 1980s, including iconic videos for major artists like Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hello (Lionel Richie song)