Gregory Rabassa
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Gregory Rabassa was an acclaimed American literary translator best known for bringing major works of Latin American fiction, including Gabriel García Márquez’s novels, into English.
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| Gregory Rabassa canonical | 11 |
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T834405 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gregory Rabassa Context triple: [One Hundred Years of Solitude, EnglishTranslator, Gregory Rabassa]
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A.
Eric Villency
Eric Villency is an American businessman and interior designer, known as the CEO of the design firm Villency Design Group and for his past marriage to television personality Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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B.
Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado was a British actor best known for originating the role of the Master, the Doctor’s arch-nemesis, in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
Ronald Mariano
Ronald Mariano is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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D.
David Arellano
David Arellano was a Chilean footballer and influential early 20th-century sports figure best known for co-founding and starring for the club Colo-Colo.
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E.
Rodolfo Marsh Martin
Rodolfo Marsh Martin was a Chilean naval officer and aviation pioneer after whom the Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Aerodrome in Antarctica is named.
- 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: Gregory Rabassa Target entity description: Gregory Rabassa was an acclaimed American literary translator best known for bringing major works of Latin American fiction, including Gabriel García Márquez’s novels, into English.
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A.
Eric Villency
Eric Villency is an American businessman and interior designer, known as the CEO of the design firm Villency Design Group and for his past marriage to television personality Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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B.
Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado was a British actor best known for originating the role of the Master, the Doctor’s arch-nemesis, in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
Ronald Mariano
Ronald Mariano is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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D.
David Arellano
David Arellano was a Chilean footballer and influential early 20th-century sports figure best known for co-founding and starring for the club Colo-Colo.
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E.
Rodolfo Marsh Martin
Rodolfo Marsh Martin was a Chilean naval officer and aviation pioneer after whom the Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Aerodrome in Antarctica is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary translator ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award for Translation
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National Medal of Arts ⓘ PEN Translation Prize ⓘ PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-03-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-06-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Dartmouth College ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University
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Queens College, City University of New York ⓘ The Graduate Center, City University of New York ⓘ
linked to:
CUNY Graduate Center
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| familyName | Rabassa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Latin American literature
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literary translation ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin American Boom literature
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linked to:
Latin American Boom
fiction translation ⓘ |
| givenName | Gregory ⓘ |
| influenced | reception of Latin American literature in the English-speaking world ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| name | Gregory Rabassa ⓘ |
| notableFor | translating major works of Latin American fiction into English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents"
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English translation of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" ⓘ English translation of "Hopscotch" ⓘ English translation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" ⓘ English translation of "The Autumn of the Patriarch" ⓘ English translation of "The Green House" ⓘ |
| occupation |
literary critic
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professor ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yonkers, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Branford, Connecticut ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carmen Rabassa ⓘ |
| translatedAuthor |
Clarice Lispector
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Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ Jorge Amado ⓘ José Lezama Lima ⓘ Julio Cortázar ⓘ Luís Fernando Veríssimo ⓘ Machado de Assis ⓘ Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ |
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Referenced by (11)
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