Rebekah
E22996
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rebekah canonical | 45 |
| Rivka | 6 |
| Rivkah | 2 |
| biblical matriarch Rebecca | 2 |
| Rebekah, matriarch in Genesis | 1 |
| Rivqa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T182665 — 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: Rebekah Context triple: [Rebecca, hasVariant, Rebekah]
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A.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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B.
Ruth
Ruth is a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that tells the story of a Moabite woman whose loyalty and faith lead to her becoming an ancestor of King David.
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C.
Ruth
Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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D.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- 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: Rebekah Target entity description: Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
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A.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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B.
Ruth
Ruth is a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that tells the story of a Moabite woman whose loyalty and faith lead to her becoming an ancestor of King David.
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C.
Ruth
Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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D.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Rebekah
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
biblical matriarch Rebecca
|
| culturalUsage |
Christian communities worldwide
ⓘ
English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| endsWith | h ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Hebrew name Rivqah ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| grammaticalNumber | singular ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Rebekah Brooks
ⓘ
Rebekah Del Rio ⓘ Rebekah Elmaloglou ⓘ Rebekah Mercer ⓘ Rebekah Staton ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAssociation |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Becky
ⓘ
surface form:
Becca
Becky ⓘ Bek ⓘ Becky ⓘ
surface form:
Bekah
Bex ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | stress on second syllable in common English pronunciation (re-BE-kah) ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Rebecca
ⓘ
Rebeca ⓘ
surface form:
Rebeccah
Rebekka Vaark ⓘ
surface form:
Rebekka
|
| meaning | often interpreted as “to tie” or “to bind” ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
biblical name
ⓘ
theophoric and religiously significant name ⓘ |
| nameDayTradition | observed in some Christian calendars under form Rebecca ⓘ |
| nameLength | 7 letters ⓘ |
| popularityTrend | more common in modern English than in earlier centuries ⓘ |
| pronunciationVariant |
/rɪˈbiːkə/ (less common)
ⓘ
/rɪˈbɛkə/ ⓘ |
| spellingType | variant of Rebecca ⓘ |
| startsWith | R ⓘ |
| usedAs | first name ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Rebekah Description of subject: Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
biblical matriarch Rebecca
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
Rivkah
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
Rivka
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
Rivqa
subject surface form:
Rivqah
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
biblical matriarch Rebecca
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
Rivkah
subject surface form:
Rivqah
this entity surface form:
Rivka
this entity surface form:
Rivka
this entity surface form:
Rivka
subject surface form:
Rebecca
subject surface form:
Rebecca
this entity surface form:
Rivka
subject surface form:
Rebecca
subject surface form:
Rebecca
this entity surface form:
Rebekah, matriarch in Genesis
this entity surface form:
Rivka
subject surface form:
Jacob