Tiago Costa
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Tiago Costa is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, most commonly associated with Portuguese or Brazilian professionals such as footballers and other public figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiago Costa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4956165 — 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: Tiago Costa Context triple: [Costa, hasNotableBearer, Tiago Costa]
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A.
Ricardo Quaresma
Ricardo Quaresma is a Portuguese winger renowned for his flair, outside-of-the-foot ("trivela") shots, and a career spanning top European clubs and the Portugal national team.
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B.
Douglas Costa
Douglas Costa is a Brazilian professional footballer known for his pacey, skillful wing play at clubs such as Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayern Munich, and Juventus, as well as for the Brazil national team.
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C.
Nuno Tavares
Nuno Tavares is a Portuguese professional footballer known for playing as an attacking left-back, notably for Arsenal and various European clubs on loan.
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D.
Octávio Pato
Octávio Pato was a Portuguese communist politician and longtime member of the Portuguese Communist Party who became known nationally as its candidate in the country’s first democratic presidential election after the Carnation Revolution.
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E.
Rui Patrício
Rui Patrício is a Portuguese professional football goalkeeper best known for his long international career with Portugal’s national team, including winning UEFA Euro 2016.
- 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: Tiago Costa Target entity description: Tiago Costa is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, most commonly associated with Portuguese or Brazilian professionals such as footballers and other public figures.
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A.
Ricardo Quaresma
Ricardo Quaresma is a Portuguese winger renowned for his flair, outside-of-the-foot ("trivela") shots, and a career spanning top European clubs and the Portugal national team.
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B.
Douglas Costa
Douglas Costa is a Brazilian professional footballer known for his pacey, skillful wing play at clubs such as Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayern Munich, and Juventus, as well as for the Brazil national team.
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C.
Nuno Tavares
Nuno Tavares is a Portuguese professional footballer known for playing as an attacking left-back, notably for Arsenal and various European clubs on loan.
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D.
Octávio Pato
Octávio Pato was a Portuguese communist politician and longtime member of the Portuguese Communist Party who became known nationally as its candidate in the country’s first democratic presidential election after the Carnation Revolution.
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E.
Rui Patrício
Rui Patrício is a Portuguese professional football goalkeeper best known for his long international career with Portugal’s national team, including winning UEFA Euro 2016.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese-language given name and surname combination
ⓘ
human name ⓘ |
| canBeShortenedTo | Tiago ⓘ |
| commonProfessionAmongBearers |
athlete
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professional footballer ⓘ public figure ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Brazilian culture
ⓘ
Portuguese culture ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Costa ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tiago ⓘ |
| hasNameComponentOrigin |
Costa is a common Portuguese surname meaning coast
ⓘ
Tiago is the Portuguese form of James ⓘ
linked to:
Tiago
|
| isAmbiguousWith |
other public figures named Tiago Costa
ⓘ
several footballers named Tiago Costa ⓘ |
| isSharedBy | multiple individuals ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Portuguese ⓘ |
| nameCategory | masculine given name with surname ⓘ |
| nameUsageType | full personal name ⓘ |
| usedInCommunity | Lusophone community ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Angola
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Cape Verde ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
Mozambique ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Tiago Costa Description of subject: Tiago Costa is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, most commonly associated with Portuguese or Brazilian professionals such as footballers and other public figures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.