Rebecca Skloot
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Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer best known for her bestselling nonfiction book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which explores the ethics of medical research and the story behind the HeLa cell line.
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| Rebecca Skloot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15010615 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Rebecca Skloot Context triple: [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author, Rebecca Skloot]
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A.
Susanne Blakeslee
Susanne Blakeslee is an American voice actress best known for portraying iconic Disney villains such as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine, as well as Wanda and other characters on The Fairly OddParents.
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B.
Kathryn Grody
Kathryn Grody is an American actress and writer known for her work in theater, film, and television, as well as for her long-standing marriage and creative partnership with actor Mandy Patinkin.
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C.
Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
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D.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is an American film and television producer and talent manager, best known as the founder of The Gotham Group and for producing numerous high-profile adaptations of books and graphic novels.
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E.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rebecca Skloot Target entity description: Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer best known for her bestselling nonfiction book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which explores the ethics of medical research and the story behind the HeLa cell line.
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A.
Susanne Blakeslee
Susanne Blakeslee is an American voice actress best known for portraying iconic Disney villains such as Maleficent and Lady Tremaine, as well as Wanda and other characters on The Fairly OddParents.
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B.
Kathryn Grody
Kathryn Grody is an American actress and writer known for her work in theater, film, and television, as well as for her long-standing marriage and creative partnership with actor Mandy Patinkin.
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C.
Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
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D.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is an American film and television producer and talent manager, best known as the founder of The Gotham Group and for producing numerous high-profile adaptations of books and graphic novels.
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E.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks