Kostava
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Kostava is a Georgian surname most notably borne by Merab Kostava, a prominent Soviet-era Georgian dissident and national independence activist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kostava canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3907395 — 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: Kostava Context triple: [Merab Kostava, familyName, Kostava]
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A.
Kuzminki
Kuzminki is a Moscow Metro station on the Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya Line serving the Kuzminki District in southeastern Moscow.
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B.
Kapesovo
Kapesovo is a traditional stone-built village in the Zagori region of Epirus, Greece, known for its preserved architecture and scenic mountainous setting.
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C.
Kameçvara
Kameçvara was a prominent king of the medieval Javanese Kediri Kingdom, remembered for his prosperous reign and association with the classic romance tale of Panji.
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D.
Cosia
Cosia is a small river in northern Italy that flows through the city of Como before emptying into Lake Como.
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E.
Kohistanis
Kohistanis are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily inhabiting the mountainous Kohistan region of northern Pakistan, known for their distinct languages and traditional highland culture.
- 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: Kostava Target entity description: Kostava is a Georgian surname most notably borne by Merab Kostava, a prominent Soviet-era Georgian dissident and national independence activist.
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A.
Kuzminki
Kuzminki is a Moscow Metro station on the Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya Line serving the Kuzminki District in southeastern Moscow.
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B.
Kapesovo
Kapesovo is a traditional stone-built village in the Zagori region of Epirus, Greece, known for its preserved architecture and scenic mountainous setting.
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C.
Kameçvara
Kameçvara was a prominent king of the medieval Javanese Kediri Kingdom, remembered for his prosperous reign and association with the classic romance tale of Panji.
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D.
Cosia
Cosia is a small river in northern Italy that flows through the city of Como before emptying into Lake Como.
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E.
Kohistanis
Kohistanis are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily inhabiting the mountainous Kohistan region of northern Pakistan, known for their distinct languages and traditional highland culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Georgian-language surname
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human ⓘ state decoration ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Hero of Georgia ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | traffic collision ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Georgia
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Georgia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-05-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-10-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Georgians ⓘ |
| familyName | Kostava self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Merab ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Merab Kostava ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Georgian language ⓘ |
| movement |
Georgian national liberation movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Georgian national independence movement
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| notableFor | opposition to Soviet rule in Georgia ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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dissident ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tbilisi ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Georgia ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | anti-communism ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Georgian script ⓘ |
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: Kostava Description of subject: Kostava is a Georgian surname most notably borne by Merab Kostava, a prominent Soviet-era Georgian dissident and national independence activist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Merab Kostava