Joseph Dana Costigan
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Joseph Dana Costigan was the husband of American actress and singer Adriana Caselotti, best known as the original voice of Snow White in Disney’s 1937 animated film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Dana Costigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8170649 — 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: Joseph Dana Costigan Context triple: [Adriana Caselotti, spouse, Joseph Dana Costigan]
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A.
James Dillon
James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Murphy MacManus
Murphy MacManus is one of the twin Irish-American vigilante brothers who serve as central protagonists in the cult action film "The Boondock Saints."
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C.
Jack Kavanagh
Jack Kavanagh was a Canadian socialist activist and political figure known for his involvement with the Socialist Party of Canada and his advocacy for Marxist principles.
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D.
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Patrick O'Rorke
Patrick O'Rorke was an Irish-born Union Army officer and colonel of the 140th New York Infantry who was killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
- 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: Joseph Dana Costigan Target entity description: Joseph Dana Costigan was the husband of American actress and singer Adriana Caselotti, best known as the original voice of Snow White in Disney’s 1937 animated film.
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A.
James Dillon
James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Murphy MacManus
Murphy MacManus is one of the twin Irish-American vigilante brothers who serve as central protagonists in the cult action film "The Boondock Saints."
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C.
Jack Kavanagh
Jack Kavanagh was a Canadian socialist activist and political figure known for his involvement with the Socialist Party of Canada and his advocacy for Marxist principles.
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D.
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Patrick O'Rorke
Patrick O'Rorke was an Irish-born Union Army officer and colonel of the 140th New York Infantry who was killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
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human ⓘ |
| notableWork | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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singer ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Adriana Caselotti
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Dana Costigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Snow White 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: Joseph Dana Costigan Description of subject: Joseph Dana Costigan was the husband of American actress and singer Adriana Caselotti, best known as the original voice of Snow White in Disney’s 1937 animated film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.