Yaya DaCosta
E461669
Yaya DaCosta is an American actress and model known for her work in film, television, and fashion, including roles in "America's Next Top Model," "The Butler," and "Chicago Med."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaya DaCosta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4624813 — 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: Yaya DaCosta Context triple: [Good Man, featuresActorInMusicVideo, Yaya DaCosta]
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A.
Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharie is an American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in projects like "Shame," "42," and the series "Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez is an American actress, choreographer, and activist known for her distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films like "Do the Right Thing" and "Fearless."
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C.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Jurnee Smollett-Bell is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including prominent roles in projects like "Eve's Bayou," "Friday Night Lights," and "Lovecraft Country."
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D.
Teyonah Parris
Teyonah Parris is an American actress known for her roles in projects such as Dear White People, Chi-Raq, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision and film The Marvels.
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E.
Stephanie Beatriz
Stephanie Beatriz is an Argentine-American actress best known for her role as the tough, deadpan detective Rosa Diaz on the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and for voicing Mirabel in Disney's animated film "Encanto."
- 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: Yaya DaCosta Target entity description: Yaya DaCosta is an American actress and model known for her work in film, television, and fashion, including roles in "America's Next Top Model," "The Butler," and "Chicago Med."
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A.
Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharie is an American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in projects like "Shame," "42," and the series "Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez is an American actress, choreographer, and activist known for her distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films like "Do the Right Thing" and "Fearless."
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C.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Jurnee Smollett-Bell is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including prominent roles in projects like "Eve's Bayou," "Friday Night Lights," and "Lovecraft Country."
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D.
Teyonah Parris
Teyonah Parris is an American actress known for her roles in projects such as Dear White People, Chi-Raq, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision and film The Marvels.
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E.
Stephanie Beatriz
Stephanie Beatriz is an Argentine-American actress best known for her role as the tough, deadpan detective Rosa Diaz on the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and for voicing Mirabel in Disney's animated film "Encanto."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ model ⓘ |
| almaMater | Brown University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedInRealityShow | America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Camara DaCosta Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayed |
April Sexton in Chicago Fire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
April Sexton in Chicago Med NERFINISHED ⓘ April Sexton in Chicago P.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-11-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
African Studies
ⓘ
International Relations ⓘ |
| film |
Take the Lead
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kids Are All Right NERFINISHED ⓘ Tron: Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Camara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 1 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Yaya DaCosta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All My Children
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
America's Next Top Model NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago Med NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the Lead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ Tron: Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugly Betty NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
fashion model ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| portrayed | Whitney Houston in the television film "Whitney" ⓘ |
| realityShowPlacement | runner-up on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| televisionSeries |
All My Children
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago Med NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago P.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugly Betty NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 2000s–present ⓘ |
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: Yaya DaCosta Description of subject: Yaya DaCosta is an American actress and model known for her work in film, television, and fashion, including roles in "America's Next Top Model," "The Butler," and "Chicago Med."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Good Man