Rebeck
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Rebeck is the surname of American playwright, television writer, and novelist Theresa Rebeck, known for her work on stage and screen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rebeck canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6279687 — 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: Rebeck Context triple: [Theresa Rebeck, hasFamilyName, Rebeck]
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A.
Rebecka
Rebecka is a feminine given name, commonly used as a spelling variant of Rebecca in various European countries.
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B.
Rebeca
Rebeca is a feminine given name, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that is a variant of the name Rebecca.
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C.
Becca
Becca is a central character in the 2015 horror film "The Visit," a teenage girl who documents her and her brother’s unsettling stay with their estranged grandparents.
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D.
Becky
Becky is a common English feminine given name, typically used as a diminutive of Rebecca.
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E.
Madelyn
Madelyn is a feminine given name, often considered a modern variant of Madeline and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Rebeck Target entity description: Rebeck is the surname of American playwright, television writer, and novelist Theresa Rebeck, known for her work on stage and screen.
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A.
Rebecka
Rebecka is a feminine given name, commonly used as a spelling variant of Rebecca in various European countries.
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B.
Rebeca
Rebeca is a feminine given name, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that is a variant of the name Rebecca.
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C.
Becca
Becca is a central character in the 2015 horror film "The Visit," a teenage girl who documents her and her brother’s unsettling stay with their estranged grandparents.
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D.
Becky
Becky is a common English feminine given name, typically used as a diminutive of Rebecca.
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E.
Madelyn
Madelyn is a feminine given name, often considered a modern variant of Madeline and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edgar Award
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Peabody Award ⓘ Writers Guild of America Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
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University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| employer |
Brandeis University
ⓘ
University of Houston ⓘ |
| familyName | Rebeck ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Theresa ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Dates
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Brooklyn Bridge ⓘ Canterbury’s Law ⓘ Crimes of the Heart (revival adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Crimes of the Heart
Dead Accounts ⓘ Dream On ⓘ I’m Glad About You ⓘ L.A. Law ⓘ Law & Order: Criminal Intent ⓘ Loose Knit ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Maximum Bob ⓘ NYPD Blue ⓘ Omnium Gatherum ⓘ Our House ⓘ Poor Behavior ⓘ Seared ⓘ Seminar ⓘ Smash ⓘ Spike Heels ⓘ The Family of Mann ⓘ The Scene ⓘ The Water’s Edge ⓘ Third Watch ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Rebeck Description of subject: Rebeck is the surname of American playwright, television writer, and novelist Theresa Rebeck, known for her work on stage and screen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rebeck