Mary Costa
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Mary Costa is an American operatic soprano and actress best known for providing the voice of Princess Aurora in Disney's animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Costa canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3249117 — 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: Mary Costa Context triple: [Sleeping Beauty, voiceActorForAurora, Mary Costa]
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A.
Loretta Castorini
Loretta Castorini is the practical, widowed Italian-American bookkeeper at the heart of the romantic comedy film "Moonstruck," whose unexpected love affair upends her carefully ordered life.
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B.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
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C.
Beverly Van Zile
Beverly Van Zile is best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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D.
Margaret Tallichet
Margaret Tallichet was an American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s who later became known for her long marriage to acclaimed director William Wyler.
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E.
Glenna Goodacre
Glenna Goodacre was an American sculptor renowned for her figurative public monuments, including the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the design of the U.S. Sacagawea dollar coin.
- 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: Mary Costa Target entity description: Mary Costa is an American operatic soprano and actress best known for providing the voice of Princess Aurora in Disney's animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
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A.
Loretta Castorini
Loretta Castorini is the practical, widowed Italian-American bookkeeper at the heart of the romantic comedy film "Moonstruck," whose unexpected love affair upends her carefully ordered life.
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B.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
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C.
Beverly Van Zile
Beverly Van Zile is best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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D.
Margaret Tallichet
Margaret Tallichet was an American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s who later became known for her long marriage to acclaimed director William Wyler.
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E.
Glenna Goodacre
Glenna Goodacre was an American sculptor renowned for her figurative public monuments, including the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the design of the U.S. Sacagawea dollar coin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ operatic soprano ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Disney Princess franchise ⓘ |
| castMember | Mary Costa self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| familyName | Costa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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music ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| genre | opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Costa self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | providing the voice of Princess Aurora in Disney's Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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operatic soprano ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| performerOf | classical music ⓘ |
| portrayed | Princess Aurora ⓘ |
| vocalType | soprano ⓘ |
| voicedBy | Mary Costa self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Princess Aurora ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Mary Costa Description of subject: Mary Costa is an American operatic soprano and actress best known for providing the voice of Princess Aurora in Disney's animated film "Sleeping Beauty."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sleeping Beauty
subject surface form:
Princess Aurora