Kostelić
E230995
Kostelić is a Croatian surname most famously associated with the champion alpine skiing family that includes Olympic gold medalist Janica Kostelić.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kostelić canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2070199 — 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: Kostelić Context triple: [Janica Kostelić, familyName, Kostelić]
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A.
Ružić
Ružić is a South Slavic surname of Croatian and Serbian origin borne by various notable individuals.
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B.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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C.
Tomislav Tomašević
Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician and environmental activist who serves as the mayor of Zagreb and is a leading figure of the green-left political movement in Croatia.
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D.
Dragaš
Dragaš is a Serbian medieval noble family name most notably borne by Helena Dragaš, the Byzantine empress and mother of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.
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E.
Saša
Saša is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, often as a diminutive of Aleksandar or Aleksandra.
- 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: Kostelić Target entity description: Kostelić is a Croatian surname most famously associated with the champion alpine skiing family that includes Olympic gold medalist Janica Kostelić.
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A.
Ružić
Ružić is a South Slavic surname of Croatian and Serbian origin borne by various notable individuals.
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B.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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C.
Tomislav Tomašević
Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician and environmental activist who serves as the mayor of Zagreb and is a leading figure of the green-left political movement in Croatia.
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D.
Dragaš
Dragaš is a Serbian medieval noble family name most notably borne by Helena Dragaš, the Byzantine empress and mother of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.
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E.
Saša
Saša is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, often as a diminutive of Aleksandar or Aleksandra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Croatian-language surname
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alpine skier ⓘ alpine skier ⓘ alpine skier ⓘ family ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| continentOfBirth | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Croatia
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Croatia ⓘ Croatia ⓘ Croatia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Croatia
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Croatia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1979-11-23
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1982-01-05 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kostelić
self-linksurface differs
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Kostelić self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kostelić self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kostelić self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Ante Kostelić
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Ivica Kostelić ⓘ Janica Kostelić ⓘ Marica Kostelić ⓘ |
| knownFor | alpine skiing ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Croatian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Kostelić family
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Kostelić family ⓘ Kostelić family ⓘ Kostelić family ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Kostelić family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Olympic gold medals in alpine skiing
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World Cup victories in alpine skiing ⓘ coaching Janica and Ivica Kostelić ⓘ |
| occupation |
alpine skier
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alpine skier ⓘ alpine skier ⓘ alpine skiing coach ⓘ |
| OlympicGoldMedalistIn | alpine skiing ⓘ |
| OlympicMedalistIn | alpine skiing ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Zagreb
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Zagreb ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
female
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male ⓘ |
| sport |
alpine skiing
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alpine skiing ⓘ alpine skiing ⓘ alpine skiing ⓘ alpine skiing ⓘ |
| worldCupTitles | overall World Cup titles in alpine skiing ⓘ |
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: Kostelić Description of subject: Kostelić is a Croatian surname most famously associated with the champion alpine skiing family that includes Olympic gold medalist Janica Kostelić.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Janica Kostelić
subject surface form:
Ivica Kostelić
subject surface form:
Ante Kostelić
subject surface form:
Marica Kostelić