Douglas Rain
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Douglas Rain was a Canadian actor best known for providing the chilling voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Douglas Rain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805260 — 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: Douglas Rain Context triple: [2001: A Space Odyssey, voiceActor, Douglas Rain]
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A.
Paul Frees
Paul Frees was a prolific American voice actor known for his work in classic animated films, television specials, and theme park attractions, often referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices."
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B.
Corey Burton
Corey Burton is an American voice actor known for his extensive work in animation and video games, including prominent roles in various Star Wars projects.
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C.
Frank Welker
Frank Welker is a prolific American voice actor renowned for his work in animation and film, including iconic roles in series like "Scooby-Doo" and "Transformers."
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D.
Rene Auberjonois
Rene Auberjonois was an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Odo on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
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E.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
- 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: Douglas Rain Target entity description: Douglas Rain was a Canadian actor best known for providing the chilling voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A.
Paul Frees
Paul Frees was a prolific American voice actor known for his work in classic animated films, television specials, and theme park attractions, often referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices."
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B.
Corey Burton
Corey Burton is an American voice actor known for his extensive work in animation and video games, including prominent roles in various Star Wars projects.
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C.
Frank Welker
Frank Welker is a prolific American voice actor renowned for his work in animation and film, including iconic roles in series like "Scooby-Doo" and "Transformers."
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D.
Rene Auberjonois
Rene Auberjonois was an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Odo on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
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E.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian person
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of Canada ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-03-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-11-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Banff School of Fine Arts
NERFINISHED
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Old Vic Theatre School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Rain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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performing arts ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Member of the Order of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Stratford Festival acting company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Douglas Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2001: A Space Odyssey
NERFINISHED
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2010: The Year We Make Contact NERFINISHED ⓘ HAL 9000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | St. Marys, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | HAL 9000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Martha Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Douglas Rain Description of subject: Douglas Rain was a Canadian actor best known for providing the chilling voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.