Milton da Costa
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Milton da Costa was a Brazilian painter and printmaker known for his transition from figurative to geometric abstraction and his significant role in mid-20th-century Brazilian modern art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Milton da Costa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1170229 — 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: Milton da Costa Context triple: [Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, hasNotableAlumni, Milton da Costa]
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A.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Nobre da Costa was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Portugal in 1978 during the country’s turbulent post-revolution transition.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Joaquim de Almeida
Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
- 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: Milton da Costa Target entity description: Milton da Costa was a Brazilian painter and printmaker known for his transition from figurative to geometric abstraction and his significant role in mid-20th-century Brazilian modern art.
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A.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Nobre da Costa was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Portugal in 1978 during the country’s turbulent post-revolution transition.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Joaquim de Almeida
Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian painter
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human ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| artForm |
oil painting
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print ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
figurative painting
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geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| creativeWorkType |
paintings
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prints ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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printmaking ⓘ |
| genre |
abstract art
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figurative art ⓘ |
| hasRole |
key figure in Brazilian geometric abstraction
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representative artist of Brazilian modernism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | modernist movements in Brazil ⓘ |
| movement |
Brazilian modern art
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geometric abstraction ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contribution to mid-20th-century Brazilian modern art
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transition from figurative to geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Brazil ⓘ |
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: Milton da Costa Description of subject: Milton da Costa was a Brazilian painter and printmaker known for his transition from figurative to geometric abstraction and his significant role in mid-20th-century Brazilian modern art.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.