Reba
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Reba is a character in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," known as the daughter of Pilate Dead and the mother of Hagar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reba canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4584069 — 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: Reba Context triple: [Pilate Dead, isMotherOf, Reba]
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A.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Country" for her decades-long influence and success in the genre.
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B.
Lorrie Morgan
Lorrie Morgan is an American country music singer known for her emotive vocal style and a string of hits since the late 1980s.
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C.
Jeannie Seely
Jeannie Seely is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member known for her 1966 hit "Don't Touch Me" and her long, influential career in Nashville.
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D.
Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood is an American country music singer, author, and television personality known for her powerful vocals and hits like "She's in Love with the Boy."
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E.
Pam Tillis
Pam Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress known for hits in the 1990s such as "Maybe It Was Memphis" and "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)."
- 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: Reba Target entity description: Reba is a character in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," known as the daughter of Pilate Dead and the mother of Hagar.
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A.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Country" for her decades-long influence and success in the genre.
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B.
Lorrie Morgan
Lorrie Morgan is an American country music singer known for her emotive vocal style and a string of hits since the late 1980s.
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C.
Jeannie Seely
Jeannie Seely is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member known for her 1966 hit "Don't Touch Me" and her long, influential career in Nashville.
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D.
Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood is an American country music singer, author, and television personality known for her powerful vocals and hits like "She's in Love with the Boy."
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E.
Pam Tillis
Pam Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress known for hits in the 1990s such as "Maybe It Was Memphis" and "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Reba Dead ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Song of Solomon ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
economic hardship
ⓘ
female vulnerability ⓘ maternal relationships ⓘ |
| auntOf | Milkman Dead ⓘ |
| creator | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| daughterOf | Pilate Dead ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dead ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Rebecca ⓘ |
| granddaughterOf |
Macon Dead I
ⓘ
Sing ⓘ |
| hasChild | Hagar ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| livesInDwellingType | house without electricity ⓘ |
| mother | Hagar ⓘ |
| nationality | African American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
extraordinary luck in winning contests
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naive ⓘ submissive in romantic relationships ⓘ |
| occupation | factory worker ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Song of Solomon universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Song of Solomon
|
| portrayedAs |
deeply attached to her daughter Hagar
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emotionally dependent on men ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Macon Dead family ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Christian-influenced folk spirituality ⓘ |
| residesIn | Michigan ⓘ |
| residesWith |
Hagar
ⓘ
Pilate Dead ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Macon Dead Jr. ⓘ |
| workGenre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1977 ⓘ |
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: Reba Description of subject: Reba is a character in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," known as the daughter of Pilate Dead and the mother of Hagar.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Dead family