da Costa
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da Costa is a Portuguese surname borne by numerous notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4872866 — 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: da Costa Context triple: [Orlando da Costa, familyName, da Costa]
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A.
da Costa Gomes
da Costa Gomes is the Portuguese surname of Francisco da Costa Gomes, a prominent 20th-century military officer and former President of Portugal.
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B.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
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C.
Paulo Costanzo
Paulo Costanzo is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in films like "Road Trip" and TV series such as "Royal Pains" and "Joey."
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D.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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E.
Sergio Costa
Sergio Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of Costa Coffee, one of the largest coffeehouse chains in the world.
- 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: da Costa Target entity description: da Costa is a Portuguese surname borne by numerous notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
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A.
da Costa Gomes
da Costa Gomes is the Portuguese surname of Francisco da Costa Gomes, a prominent 20th-century military officer and former President of Portugal.
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B.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
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C.
Paulo Costanzo
Paulo Costanzo is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in films like "Road Trip" and TV series such as "Royal Pains" and "Joey."
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D.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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E.
Sergio Costa
Sergio Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of Costa Coffee, one of the largest coffeehouse chains in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: da Costa Description of subject: da Costa is a Portuguese surname borne by numerous notable individuals across literature, politics, sports, and other fields.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: da Costa
linked to: da Costa