Rebecca Goldstein
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Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist known for her works exploring the intersection of philosophy, science, and religion, including "The Mind-Body Problem" and "Betraying Spinoza."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rebecca Goldstein canonical | 21 |
| Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | 2 |
| Rebecca Goldstein is a novelist | 1 |
| Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1726336 — 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 Goldstein Context triple: [Steven Pinker, spouse, Rebecca Goldstein]
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Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is known as the wife of prominent 1960s Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio.
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Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is a prominent civil rights lawyer and legal scholar known for her work on free speech and equality issues in the United States.
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C.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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D.
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Bonnie Sherr Klein is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and disability rights activist known for her influential documentaries and advocacy work.
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E.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
- 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 Goldstein Target entity description: Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist known for her works exploring the intersection of philosophy, science, and religion, including "The Mind-Body Problem" and "Betraying Spinoza."
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A.
Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is a prominent civil rights lawyer and legal scholar known for her work on free speech and equality issues in the United States.
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B.
Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is known as the wife of prominent 1960s Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio.
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C.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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D.
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Bonnie Sherr Klein is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and disability rights activist known for her influential documentaries and advocacy work.
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E.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Goldstein Description of subject: Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist known for her works exploring the intersection of philosophy, science, and religion, including "The Mind-Body Problem" and "Betraying Spinoza."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rebecca Goldstein
linked to: Rebecca Goldstein
linked to: Rebecca Goldstein
linked to: Rebecca Goldstein