Heidi Stillman
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Heidi Stillman is an American theater director, playwright, and adapter known for her long-time leadership and innovative storytelling work with Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heidi Stillman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9473985 — 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: Heidi Stillman Context triple: [Lookingglass Theatre Company, hasArtisticDirector, Heidi Stillman]
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A.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker and television director known for her work in independent cinema and on acclaimed TV series.
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B.
Carol Holofcener
Carol Holofcener is the mother of American film director and screenwriter Nicole Holofcener.
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C.
Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her sharply observed, character-driven comedies and dramas exploring relationships, identity, and everyday moral dilemmas.
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D.
Olivia Mazursky
Olivia Mazursky is a member of the Mazursky family connected to Zack Mazursky, a figure known from the real-life kidnapping and murder case that inspired the film "Alpha Dog."
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E.
Rainey Reitman
Rainey Reitman is a digital rights and civil liberties advocate known for her leadership roles in organizations defending press freedom and online privacy.
- 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: Heidi Stillman Target entity description: Heidi Stillman is an American theater director, playwright, and adapter known for her long-time leadership and innovative storytelling work with Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
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A.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker and television director known for her work in independent cinema and on acclaimed TV series.
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B.
Carol Holofcener
Carol Holofcener is the mother of American film director and screenwriter Nicole Holofcener.
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C.
Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her sharply observed, character-driven comedies and dramas exploring relationships, identity, and everyday moral dilemmas.
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D.
Olivia Mazursky
Olivia Mazursky is a member of the Mazursky family connected to Zack Mazursky, a figure known from the real-life kidnapping and murder case that inspired the film "Alpha Dog."
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E.
Rainey Reitman
Rainey Reitman is a digital rights and civil liberties advocate known for her leadership roles in organizations defending press freedom and online privacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adapter
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artistic director ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| affiliation | Chicago theatre community ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Lookingglass Theatre Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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playwriting ⓘ stage direction ⓘ |
| genre | theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborative ensemble-based theatre
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stage adaptations of literary works ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lookingglass Theatre Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative storytelling in theatre
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work with Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| notableWork | stage adaptations at Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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adapter ⓘ playwright ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company
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Ensemble Member at Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago 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: Heidi Stillman Description of subject: Heidi Stillman is an American theater director, playwright, and adapter known for her long-time leadership and innovative storytelling work with Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.