Kenneth Posner
E403770
Kenneth Posner is a prominent American theatrical lighting designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kenneth Posner canonical | 10 |
| Posner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3773124 — 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: Kenneth Posner Context triple: [Mean Girls (musical), lightingDesigner, Kenneth Posner]
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Howard E. Tatel
Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
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B.
Roy R. Neuberger
Roy R. Neuberger was an American financier, philanthropist, and prominent modern art collector who played a key role in supporting and promoting 20th-century artists.
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C.
Philip B. Heymann
Philip B. Heymann was an American legal scholar and former high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official known for his work in criminal law, national security, and public service.
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D.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
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E.
Stanley Rosenblum
Stanley Rosenblum was a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the boxing sequel "Rocky II."
- 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: Kenneth Posner Target entity description: Kenneth Posner is a prominent American theatrical lighting designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
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A.
Howard E. Tatel
Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
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B.
Roy R. Neuberger
Roy R. Neuberger was an American financier, philanthropist, and prominent modern art collector who played a key role in supporting and promoting 20th-century artists.
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C.
Philip B. Heymann
Philip B. Heymann was an American legal scholar and former high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official known for his work in criminal law, national security, and public service.
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D.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
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E.
Stanley Rosenblum
Stanley Rosenblum was a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the boxing sequel "Rocky II."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway designer
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lighting designer ⓘ person ⓘ theatrical lighting designer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theatre
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linked to:
Broadway theater
musical theatre ⓘ theatre lighting design ⓘ |
| genre | theatrical lighting design ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
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Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design ⓘ Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative use of color and texture in stage lighting
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lighting design for large-scale Broadway musicals ⓘ |
| notableWork |
9 to 5 (musical)
ⓘ
linked to:
9 to 5: The Musical
Beetlejuice (musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Beetlejuice (stage musical)
Catch Me If You Can (musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Broadway production) ⓘ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ⓘ Grease (1994 Broadway revival) ⓘ Hairspray ⓘ If/Then (musical) ⓘ Kinky Boots ⓘ Legally Blonde: The Musical ⓘ
linked to:
Legally Blonde (Broadway musical)
Little Women (musical) ⓘ Mean Girls (Broadway musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (musical)
Newsies ⓘ
linked to:
Newsies (stage musical)
Pippin (2013 Broadway revival) ⓘ Seussical ⓘ
linked to:
Seussical (musical)
Side Man ⓘ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Broadway musical) ⓘ
linked to:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Broadway)
The Bridges of Madison County (musical) ⓘ The Coast of Utopia ⓘ The Coast of Utopia: Salvage ⓘ
linked to:
The Coast of Utopia
The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck ⓘ
linked to:
Shipwreck (The Coast of Utopia)
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage ⓘ
linked to:
Shipwreck (The Coast of Utopia)
The Frogs (Lincoln Center Theater production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Frogs (musical) by Stephen Sondheim
The Full Monty (Broadway musical) ⓘ
linked to:
The Full Monty
The Merchant of Venice (2010 Broadway production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Merchant of Venice
The Wedding Singer (musical) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wedding Singer
Wicked ⓘ
linked to:
Wicked (musical)
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| occupation |
Broadway lighting designer
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lighting designer ⓘ theatrical designer ⓘ |
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: Kenneth Posner Description of subject: Kenneth Posner is a prominent American theatrical lighting designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Wicked (musical)
subject linked to:
Broadway production of "If/Then"
linked to: Kenneth Posner
subject linked to:
If/Then (musical)