Sylvia Costas
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Sylvia Costas is a key supporting character on the television drama "NYPD Blue," known as an assistant district attorney and the love interest and later wife of Detective Andy Sipowicz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sylvia Costas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5589254 — 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: Sylvia Costas Context triple: [NYPD Blue, character, Sylvia Costas]
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A.
Marlene Mathias
Marlene Mathias is known as the daughter of American Olympic decathlon champion and politician Bob Mathias.
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B.
Carmen Larbalestier
Carmen Larbalestier is a British woman best known as the mother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
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C.
Stella Sampas
Stella Sampas was the third wife and widow of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, known for managing his literary estate after his death.
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D.
Celia Costas
Celia Costas is a film and television producer known for her work on acclaimed projects such as the drama film "Doubt."
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E.
Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan-American actress and former model best known for her roles in 1970s and 1980s films and television, including playing the villainous Fatima Blush in the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again."
- 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: Sylvia Costas Target entity description: Sylvia Costas is a key supporting character on the television drama "NYPD Blue," known as an assistant district attorney and the love interest and later wife of Detective Andy Sipowicz.
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A.
Marlene Mathias
Marlene Mathias is known as the daughter of American Olympic decathlon champion and politician Bob Mathias.
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B.
Carmen Larbalestier
Carmen Larbalestier is a British woman best known as the mother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
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C.
Stella Sampas
Stella Sampas was the third wife and widow of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, known for managing his literary estate after his death.
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D.
Celia Costas
Celia Costas is a film and television producer known for her work on acclaimed projects such as the drama film "Doubt."
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E.
Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan-American actress and former model best known for her roles in 1970s and 1980s films and television, including playing the villainous Fatima Blush in the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
15th Precinct detectives
NERFINISHED
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criminal court proceedings ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
ethical ⓘ strong-willed ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfSeries | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
David Milch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Bochco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | NYPD Blue universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeries | NYPD Blue Season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Theo Sipowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfSeries | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
love interest of Andy Sipowicz
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant district attorney
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prosecutor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sharon Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Theo Sipowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Andy Sipowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesNetwork | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Andy Sipowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storylineElement |
marriage to Andy Sipowicz
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motherhood of Theo Sipowicz ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | police procedural television series ⓘ |
| worksFor | Manhattan District Attorney's Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sylvia Costas Description of subject: Sylvia Costas is a key supporting character on the television drama "NYPD Blue," known as an assistant district attorney and the love interest and later wife of Detective Andy Sipowicz.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.