Susan Bernofsky
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Susan Bernofsky is an acclaimed American translator and scholar best known for her English translations of major German-language authors, including works by Franz Kafka, Robert Walser, and Yoko Tawada.
All labels observed (1)
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| Susan Bernofsky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11536348 — 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 Bernofsky Context triple: [Memoirs of a Polar Bear, translatorToEnglish, Susan Bernofsky]
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A.
Alison Schapker
Alison Schapker is an American television writer and producer known for her work on series such as Alias, Lost, Fringe, and The Flash.
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Susan Bysiewicz
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who has served in several key Connecticut state government roles, including as lieutenant governor and former secretary of the state.
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C.
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler is an American information scientist best known for leading early internet directory and naming services, including managing the first WHOIS and domain name registries.
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D.
Pamela Segall
Pamela Segall is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Bobby Hill on the animated television series "King of the Hill."
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E.
Susan Hoffman
Susan Hoffman is a film producer known for her work on the psychological drama "The Believer."
- 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 Bernofsky Target entity description: Susan Bernofsky is an acclaimed American translator and scholar best known for her English translations of major German-language authors, including works by Franz Kafka, Robert Walser, and Yoko Tawada.
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A.
Alison Schapker
Alison Schapker is an American television writer and producer known for her work on series such as Alias, Lost, Fringe, and The Flash.
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B.
Susan Bysiewicz
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who has served in several key Connecticut state government roles, including as lieutenant governor and former secretary of the state.
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C.
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler is an American information scientist best known for leading early internet directory and naming services, including managing the first WHOIS and domain name registries.
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D.
Pamela Segall
Pamela Segall is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Bobby Hill on the animated television series "King of the Hill."
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E.
Susan Hoffman
Susan Hoffman is a film producer known for her work on the psychological drama "The Believer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary translator ⓘ scholar ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography ⓘ PEN Translation Prize ⓘ Warwick Prize for Women in Translation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Johns Hopkins University ⓘ University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University
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Columbia University School of the Arts ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
German literature
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literary translation ⓘ translation studies ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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literary non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in German literature ⓘ |
| languagesTranslatedFrom | German ⓘ |
| languagesTranslatedInto | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American literary translators community ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
Franz Kafka
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German-language modernism ⓘ Robert Walser ⓘ Yoko Tawada ⓘ |
| notableWork |
English translation of "Berlin Stories" by Robert Walser
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English translation of "Jakob von Gunten" by Robert Walser ⓘ English translation of "Memoirs of a Polar Bear" by Yoko Tawada ⓘ English translation of "The Assistant" by Robert Walser ⓘ English translation of "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka ⓘ English translation of "The Naked Eye" by Yoko Tawada ⓘ English translation of "The Robber" by Robert Walser ⓘ English translation of "The Tanners" by Robert Walser ⓘ English translation of "Where Europe Begins" by Yoko Tawada ⓘ English translations of Franz Kafka ⓘ English translations of Robert Walser ⓘ English translations of Yoko Tawada ⓘ book "Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser" ⓘ book "Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe" ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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translator ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) program ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Bernofsky Description of subject: Susan Bernofsky is an acclaimed American translator and scholar best known for her English translations of major German-language authors, including works by Franz Kafka, Robert Walser, and Yoko Tawada.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.