Paulo Costa
E491912
Paulo Costa is a Brazilian mixed martial artist known for competing in the UFC’s middleweight division and for his aggressive striking style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paulo Costa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4956152 — 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: Paulo Costa Context triple: [Costa, hasNotableBearer, Paulo Costa]
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A.
Ricardo Soares
Ricardo Soares is a Portuguese football manager known for coaching several clubs in Portugal’s professional leagues.
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B.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
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C.
Thiago Soares
Thiago Soares is a renowned Brazilian ballet dancer best known as a former principal dancer of The Royal Ballet in London.
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D.
Paulo Rodrigues
Paulo Rodrigues is a relatively common Portuguese name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, academia, and the arts, rather than referring to a single widely recognized public figure.
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E.
Thiago Teixeira
Thiago Teixeira is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the data app development platform Streamlit.
- 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: Paulo Costa Target entity description: Paulo Costa is a Brazilian mixed martial artist known for competing in the UFC’s middleweight division and for his aggressive striking style.
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A.
Ricardo Soares
Ricardo Soares is a Portuguese football manager known for coaching several clubs in Portugal’s professional leagues.
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B.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
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C.
Thiago Soares
Thiago Soares is a renowned Brazilian ballet dancer best known as a former principal dancer of The Royal Ballet in London.
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D.
Paulo Rodrigues
Paulo Rodrigues is a relatively common Portuguese name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, academia, and the arts, rather than referring to a single widely recognized public figure.
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E.
Thiago Teixeira
Thiago Teixeira is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the data app development platform Streamlit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian mixed martial artist
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human ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1991-04-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| challengedForTitleAgainst | Israel Adesanya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competesIn | UFC middleweight division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| defeated |
Gareth McLellan
NERFINISHED
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Johny Hendricks NERFINISHED ⓘ Oluwale Bamgbose NERFINISHED ⓘ Uriah Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoel Romero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionForTitleChallenge | UFC middleweight division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightingStyle |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muay Thai NERFINISHED ⓘ aggressive striking ⓘ |
| fullName | Paulo Henrique Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paulo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlackBeltIn | Brazilian jiu-jitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProfession |
mixed martial artist
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professional fighter ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
body strikes
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high finishing rate ⓘ powerful punching ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| lostTo |
Israel Adesanya
NERFINISHED
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Marvin Vettori NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Whittaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeUFCDebutAgainst | Gareth McLellan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodOfLossToIsraelAdesanya | TKO ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| nickname |
Borrachinha
NERFINISHED
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The Eraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive striking style
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competing in the UFC’s middleweight division ⓘ |
| primaryOrganization | Ultimate Fighting Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox ⓘ |
| titleChallengeEvent | UFC 253 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainedIn |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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Muay Thai NERFINISHED ⓘ boxing ⓘ |
| weightClass |
light heavyweight
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middleweight ⓘ |
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: Paulo Costa Description of subject: Paulo Costa is a Brazilian mixed martial artist known for competing in the UFC’s middleweight division and for his aggressive striking style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.