da Silva Costa
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da Silva Costa is a Portuguese-language surname most notably borne by Brazilian civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, designer of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| da Silva Costa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8794827 — 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 Silva Costa Context triple: [Heitor da Silva Costa, familyName, da Silva Costa]
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A.
da Silva Ferreira
Da Silva Ferreira is the Portuguese family name of Eusébio, the legendary Mozambique-born footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
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B.
da Silva Rocha
da Silva Rocha is a Portuguese-language family name associated with Brazilian football legend Roberto Carlos.
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C.
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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D.
da Silva Santos
da Silva Santos is the family surname of Brazilian football star Neymar Jr., shared by members of his immediate family.
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E.
Costa Pinheiro
Costa Pinheiro was a Portuguese artist known for his contributions to contemporary painting and public art installations.
- 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 Silva Costa Target entity description: da Silva Costa is a Portuguese-language surname most notably borne by Brazilian civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, designer of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue.
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A.
da Silva Ferreira
Da Silva Ferreira is the Portuguese family name of Eusébio, the legendary Mozambique-born footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
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B.
da Silva Rocha
da Silva Rocha is a Portuguese-language family name associated with Brazilian football legend Roberto Carlos.
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C.
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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D.
da Silva Santos
da Silva Santos is the family surname of Brazilian football star Neymar Jr., shared by members of his immediate family.
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E.
Costa Pinheiro
Costa Pinheiro was a Portuguese artist known for his contributions to contemporary painting and public art installations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese-language surname
ⓘ
civil engineer ⓘ monument ⓘ person ⓘ statue ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| component |
Costa
ⓘ
Silva ⓘ da ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| depicts | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | civil engineering ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Heitor da Silva Costa ⓘ |
| knownFor | design of Christ the Redeemer statue ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Portuguese ⓘ |
| location | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| notableWork | Christ the Redeemer ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Angola
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Brazil ⓘ 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: da Silva Costa Description of subject: da Silva Costa is a Portuguese-language surname most notably borne by Brazilian civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, designer of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.