DI John Rebus in Rebus
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DI John Rebus in Rebus is the hard-drinking, maverick Edinburgh detective at the center of Ian Rankin’s crime series, known for his dogged investigations and complex moral outlook.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inspector John Rebus | 2 |
| DI John Rebus in Rebus canonical | 1 |
| Inspector Rebus series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8440576 — 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: DI John Rebus in Rebus Context triple: [John Hannah, playedRole, DI John Rebus in Rebus]
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A.
Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse
Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is the fictional, opera-loving and intellectually gifted Oxford detective at the center of Colin Dexter’s crime novels and their television adaptations.
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B.
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is the central fictional police detective in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders," known for solving complex murders in the seemingly idyllic English countryside.
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C.
Roy Grace
Roy Grace is a fictional British detective and the protagonist of Peter James's popular crime novel series set in Brighton.
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D.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
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E.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright in Endeavour
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright in *Endeavour* is a senior, old-school Oxford police officer known for his formality, integrity, and evolving mentorship of the young detective Endeavour Morse.
- 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: DI John Rebus in Rebus Target entity description: DI John Rebus in Rebus is the hard-drinking, maverick Edinburgh detective at the center of Ian Rankin’s crime series, known for his dogged investigations and complex moral outlook.
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A.
Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse
Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is the fictional, opera-loving and intellectually gifted Oxford detective at the center of Colin Dexter’s crime novels and their television adaptations.
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B.
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is the central fictional police detective in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders," known for solving complex murders in the seemingly idyllic English countryside.
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C.
Roy Grace
Roy Grace is a fictional British detective and the protagonist of Peter James's popular crime novel series set in Brighton.
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D.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
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E.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright in Endeavour
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright in *Endeavour* is a senior, old-school Oxford police officer known for his formality, integrity, and evolving mentorship of the young detective Endeavour Morse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fictional detective ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Heart Full of Headstones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Question of Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ Black and Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Souls NERFINISHED ⓘ Even Dogs in the Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ Exit Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Fleshmarket Close NERFINISHED ⓘ Hide and Seek NERFINISHED ⓘ In a House of Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ Knots and Crosses NERFINISHED ⓘ Let It Bleed NERFINISHED ⓘ Mortal Causes NERFINISHED ⓘ Rather Be the Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ Resurrection Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Saints of the Shadow Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Set in Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ Standing in Another Man’s Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Strip Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Book NERFINISHED ⓘ The Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hanging Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Naming of the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Tooth and Nail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dogged
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maverick ⓘ morally complex ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| closeColleague | DS Siobhan Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| creator | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Lothian and Borders Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Knots and Crosses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Rebus (television series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conflicts with superiors
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hard drinking ⓘ unorthodox investigative methods ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation |
Detective Inspector in Lothian and Borders Police
ⓘ
police detective ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
John Hannah
NERFINISHED
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Ken Stott NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Detective Inspector ⓘ |
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: DI John Rebus in Rebus Description of subject: DI John Rebus in Rebus is the hard-drinking, maverick Edinburgh detective at the center of Ian Rankin’s crime series, known for his dogged investigations and complex moral outlook.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Inspector Rebus series
this entity surface form:
Inspector John Rebus