Rebecca
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Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rebecca canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9224649 — 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: [Prophet Ishaq, spouse, Rebecca]
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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 courageous and compassionate Jewish healer in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe," renowned for her integrity and tragic, unrequited love.
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C.
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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D.
Rebecca (1940 film)
Rebecca (1940 film) is a 1940 gothic romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, and renowned for its haunting atmosphere and Laurence Olivier’s performance.
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E.
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that follows a young, unnamed woman who marries a wealthy widower and becomes haunted by the lingering presence and secrets of his first wife at the grand estate of Manderley.
- 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 prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
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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 (1940 film)
Rebecca (1940 film) is a 1940 gothic romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, and renowned for its haunting atmosphere and Laurence Olivier’s performance.
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E.
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that follows a young, unnamed woman who marries a wealthy widower and becomes haunted by the lingering presence and secrets of his first wife at the grand estate of Manderley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
matriarch ⓘ person in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 24
ⓘ
Genesis 25 ⓘ Genesis 26 ⓘ Genesis 27 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | well at Nahor’s city ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | deception of Isaac for Jacob’s blessing ⓘ |
| brother | Laban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| children |
Esau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Ancient Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encouraged | Jacob to obtain Isaac’s blessing ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Aramean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Bethuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| favoredChild | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Nahor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandmother | Milcah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hospitality to Abraham’s servant
ⓘ
inquiring of the Lord during pregnancy ⓘ kindness in drawing water for camels ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| marriageArrangedBy | Abraham’s servant ⓘ |
| marriedIn | Canaan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| motherIn | lineage of the Israelites ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Esau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInHebrew | רִבְקָה NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being mother of Esau and Jacob
ⓘ
being wife of Isaac ⓘ |
| partOf | Patriarchal narratives ⓘ |
| prayedTo | Yahweh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pregnancyWith | twins ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Abraham’s family ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Canaan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haran NERFINISHED ⓘ Paddan-aram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | carrier of Abrahamic covenant through Isaac’s line ⓘ |
| spiritualTradition |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism 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 prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.