Rebus
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Rebus is a British television crime drama series based on Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels, featuring John Hannah in the title role in its early adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rebus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8440559 — 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: Rebus Context triple: [John Hannah, notableWork, Rebus]
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A.
Calligrams
Calligrams is a specialized imprint of New York Review Books focused on publishing distinctive literary and intellectual works, often in translation.
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B.
Scramble Board
Scramble Board was a popular recurring word-guessing game segment on the television music and dance show "Soul Train."
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C.
Pennycross
Pennycross is a historic estate in Scotland that served as a principal seat of Clan Maclean.
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D.
Puzzlewood
Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland and tourist attraction in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, famed for its moss-covered rocks, twisting pathways, and inspiration for works like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
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E.
Riddler
The Riddler is a Gotham City supervillain and criminal mastermind in the Batman universe, obsessed with leaving riddles and puzzles as clues to his elaborate crimes.
- 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: Rebus Target entity description: Rebus is a British television crime drama series based on Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels, featuring John Hannah in the title role in its early adaptations.
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A.
Calligrams
Calligrams is a specialized imprint of New York Review Books focused on publishing distinctive literary and intellectual works, often in translation.
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B.
Scramble Board
Scramble Board was a popular recurring word-guessing game segment on the television music and dance show "Soul Train."
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C.
Pennycross
Pennycross is a historic estate in Scotland that served as a principal seat of Clan Maclean.
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D.
Puzzlewood
Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland and tourist attraction in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, famed for its moss-covered rocks, twisting pathways, and inspiration for works like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
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E.
Riddler
The Riddler is a Gotham City supervillain and criminal mastermind in the Batman universe, obsessed with leaving riddles and puzzles as clues to his elaborate crimes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television crime drama series ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Inspector Rebus book series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Inspector Rebus novels
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
works by Ian Rankin ⓘ |
| characterCreatedBy | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
Scottish police investigations
ⓘ
crime in Edinburgh ⓘ |
| distributor | STV Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ended | 2007 ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2000 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural television series ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeRuntime | approximately 60 minutes ⓘ |
| hasFormat | live-action television series ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
mystery television series ⓘ |
| hasInspectorRebusActor |
John Hannah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Stott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterBroadcastAs | one-hour television episodes ⓘ |
| leadActorInEarlyAdaptations | John Hannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 14 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 4 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | feature-length television films ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
John Hannah as Inspector Rebus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Stott as Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Clerkenwell Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STV Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
John Hannah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Stott 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: Rebus Description of subject: Rebus is a British television crime drama series based on Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels, featuring John Hannah in the title role in its early adaptations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.