Rebecca
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"Rebecca" is a classic 1940 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, renowned for its haunting atmosphere and performances by Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Gladys Cooper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rebecca canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12971179 — 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: Rebecca Context triple: [Gladys Cooper, notableWork, Rebecca]
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Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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Rebecca
Rebecca is a courageous and compassionate Jewish healer in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe," renowned for her integrity and tragic, unrequited love.
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Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a fictional character appearing in the British television drama series "Ashes to Ashes."
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E.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
- 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: Rebecca Target entity description: "Rebecca" is a classic 1940 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, renowned for its haunting atmosphere and performances by Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Gladys Cooper.
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A.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
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C.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a courageous and compassionate Jewish healer in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe," renowned for her integrity and tragic, unrequited love.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a fictional character appearing in the British television drama series "Ashes to Ashes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
black-and-white film
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film ⓘ psychological thriller film ⓘ |
| academyAward |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
NERFINISHED
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Academy Award for Best Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Rebecca (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| blacklistedContentChange | ending altered from novel to satisfy Production Code ⓘ |
| character |
Maxim de Winter
NERFINISHED
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Mrs. Danvers NERFINISHED ⓘ the second Mrs. de Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Dorothy Spencer
NERFINISHED
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Hal C. Kern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery film
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psychological thriller ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Actor
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Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Film Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gothic tone
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haunting atmosphere ⓘ strong performances by lead cast ⓘ |
| partOf | Alfred Hitchcock filmography ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | David O. Selznick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Selznick International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1940-03-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 130 ⓘ |
| setting |
Cornwall
NERFINISHED
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Manderley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkPublicationYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| starring |
George Sanders
NERFINISHED
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Gladys Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Olivier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rebecca Description of subject: "Rebecca" is a classic 1940 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, renowned for its haunting atmosphere and performances by Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Gladys Cooper.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.