Susan Hilferty
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Susan Hilferty is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer best known for her iconic work on the Broadway musical "Wicked."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susan Hilferty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5161798 — 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: Susan Hilferty Context triple: [Wicked, costumeDesigner, Susan Hilferty]
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A.
Susan Benfer
Susan Benfer is known as the wife of prominent American newscaster David Brinkley.
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B.
Lisa Bluder
Lisa Bluder is a longtime head coach of the University of Iowa women's basketball team, known for leading the Hawkeyes to national prominence behind star players like Caitlin Clark.
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C.
Lisa Gunning
Lisa Gunning is a British film editor known for her work on feature films, including the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
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D.
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin was an American actress and audiobook publisher known for her film and television roles in the 1970s and 1980s and for co-founding a successful audio book company.
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E.
Laura Bickford
Laura Bickford is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including the Oscar-winning drama "Traffic."
- 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: Susan Hilferty Target entity description: Susan Hilferty is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer best known for her iconic work on the Broadway musical "Wicked."
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A.
Susan Benfer
Susan Benfer is known as the wife of prominent American newscaster David Brinkley.
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B.
Lisa Bluder
Lisa Bluder is a longtime head coach of the University of Iowa women's basketball team, known for leading the Hawkeyes to national prominence behind star players like Caitlin Clark.
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C.
Lisa Gunning
Lisa Gunning is a British film editor known for her work on feature films, including the dark comedy crime film "Seven Psychopaths."
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D.
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin was an American actress and audiobook publisher known for her film and television roles in the 1970s and 1980s and for co-founding a successful audio book company.
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E.
Laura Bickford
Laura Bickford is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including the Oscar-winning drama "Traffic."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costume designer
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person ⓘ theatre designer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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Outer Critics Circle Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Syracuse University
NERFINISHED
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Yale School of Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New York University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
costume design
ⓘ
set and production design ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| hasDesignedFor |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ film ⓘ opera ⓘ regional theatre ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guthrie Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Mantello NERFINISHED ⓘ LA Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ Manhattan Theatre Club NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon Shakespeare Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ Public Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ Roundabout Theatre Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Stage Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Schwartz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | costume design for the Broadway musical "Wicked" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | created the original costume designs for the Broadway premiere of "Wicked" in 2003 ⓘ |
| notableProduction |
Assassins
NERFINISHED
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Dirty Blonde NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Lestat NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Awakening NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Wicked NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
costume designer
ⓘ
professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chair of the design department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
fantastical and character-driven designs
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strong color palettes ⓘ use of bold silhouettes ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Susan Hilferty Description of subject: Susan Hilferty is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer best known for her iconic work on the Broadway musical "Wicked."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wicked