Theresa Rebeck
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Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and producer known for her work on stage and screen, including creating the musical drama series "Smash."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theresa Rebeck canonical | 28 |
| Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1226076 — 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: Theresa Rebeck Context triple: [Smash, creator, Theresa Rebeck]
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A.
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright known for her witty, feminist explorations of contemporary women's lives in works such as "The Heidi Chronicles."
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B.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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C.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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D.
Adrienne Nesser
Adrienne Nesser is an American activist and former boutique owner best known as the longtime wife of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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E.
Connie Reid
Connie Reid is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Reid.
- 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: Theresa Rebeck Target entity description: Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and producer known for her work on stage and screen, including creating the musical drama series "Smash."
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A.
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright known for her witty, feminist explorations of contemporary women's lives in works such as "The Heidi Chronicles."
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B.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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C.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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D.
Adrienne Nesser
Adrienne Nesser is an American activist and former boutique owner best known as the longtime wife of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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E.
Connie Reid
Connie Reid is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Reid.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American playwright
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Edgar Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | Smash ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-02-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
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University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Rebeck ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Theresa ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Pulitzer Prize for Drama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Dates
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Loose Knit ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Omnium Gatherum ⓘ Our House ⓘ Seminar ⓘ Smash ⓘ Spike Heels ⓘ The Family of Mann ⓘ The Scene ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| wrote |
Bad Dates
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Loose Knit ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Our House ⓘ Seminar ⓘ Spike Heels ⓘ The Family of Mann ⓘ The Scene ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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NYPD Blue ⓘ Smash ⓘ |
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: Theresa Rebeck Description of subject: Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and producer known for her work on stage and screen, including creating the musical drama series "Smash."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Theresa Rebeck
subject linked to:
NBC television series Smash
subject linked to:
NBC television series Smash
subject linked to:
Tom Levitt in Smash