Beckett on Film: Rockaby
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Beckett on Film: Rockaby is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Rockaby," featuring a celebrated performance by actress Billie Whitelaw.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beckett on Film: Ghost Trio | 1 |
| Beckett on Film: Rockaby canonical | 1 |
| Beckett on Film: Rough for Theatre I | 1 |
| Beckett on Film: What Where | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446906 — 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: Beckett on Film: Rockaby Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett on Film: Rockaby]
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A.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Not I
Beckett on Film: Not I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s intense monologue play, featuring a disembodied mouth delivering a rapid, fragmented stream of consciousness in near-total darkness.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Play
Beckett on Film: Play is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Play," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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E.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
- 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: Beckett on Film: Rockaby Target entity description: Beckett on Film: Rockaby is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Rockaby," featuring a celebrated performance by actress Billie Whitelaw.
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A.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Not I
Beckett on Film: Not I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s intense monologue play, featuring a disembodied mouth delivering a rapid, fragmented stream of consciousness in near-total darkness.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Play
Beckett on Film: Play is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Play," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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E.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film series ⓘ play ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Samuel Beckett’s short play Rockaby ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| basedOn | Rockaby ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| director | Richard Eyre ⓘ |
| distributor | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| featuresPerformanceBy | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| format | short film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
experimental film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor | Billie Whitelaw’s performance ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beckett on Film project
ⓘ
surface form:
Beckett on Film
|
| productionCompany |
Blue Angel Films
ⓘ
Channel 4 ⓘ RTÉ ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthor | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| spokenTextBy | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| starring | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
aging
ⓘ
death ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
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: Beckett on Film: Rockaby Description of subject: Beckett on Film: Rockaby is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Rockaby," featuring a celebrated performance by actress Billie Whitelaw.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Beckett on Film: Rough for Theatre I
this entity surface form:
Beckett on Film: What Where
this entity surface form:
Beckett on Film: Ghost Trio