Rockaby
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Rockaby is a one-woman monologue play by Samuel Beckett, renowned for its haunting exploration of isolation and mortality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rockaby canonical | 5 |
| Your Rockaby | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446958 — 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: Rockaby Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, Rockaby]
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A.
Runaway
"Runaway" is a critically acclaimed, introspective hip-hop track by Kanye West known for its minimalist piano motif and exploration of flawed relationships and self-sabotage.
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B.
Runaway
"Runaway" is a 1961 pop-rock song by Del Shannon, famous for its haunting melody, distinctive Musitron solo, and status as one of the defining hits of early 1960s rock and roll.
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C.
Somewhere
"Somewhere" is a poignant ballad from the musical West Side Story that expresses a longing for a peaceful place where love can transcend conflict and prejudice.
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D.
Hold Back the River
"Hold Back the River" is a soulful, folk-influenced pop song by English singer-songwriter James Bay that became one of his breakout hits.
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E.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
- 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: Rockaby Target entity description: Rockaby is a one-woman monologue play by Samuel Beckett, renowned for its haunting exploration of isolation and mortality.
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A.
Runaway
"Runaway" is a critically acclaimed, introspective hip-hop track by Kanye West known for its minimalist piano motif and exploration of flawed relationships and self-sabotage.
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B.
Runaway
"Runaway" is a 1961 pop-rock song by Del Shannon, famous for its haunting melody, distinctive Musitron solo, and status as one of the defining hits of early 1960s rock and roll.
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C.
Somewhere
"Somewhere" is a poignant ballad from the musical West Side Story that expresses a longing for a peaceful place where love can transcend conflict and prejudice.
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D.
Hold Back the River
"Hold Back the River" is a soulful, folk-influenced pop song by English singer-songwriter James Bay that became one of his breakout hits.
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E.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
monologue
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one-woman play ⓘ play ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | woman ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| form | monologue ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | Theatre of the Absurd ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
haunting atmosphere
ⓘ
repetitive language ⓘ sparse staging ⓘ |
| numberOfCharacters | 1 ⓘ |
| structure | short play ⓘ |
| style |
experimental theatre
ⓘ
minimalist ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
approach of death
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human condition ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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death ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ mortality ⓘ |
| writer | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
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: Rockaby Description of subject: Rockaby is a one-woman monologue play by Samuel Beckett, renowned for its haunting exploration of isolation and mortality.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.