Ricardo Costa
E498921
Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese former professional footballer best known for his defensive versatility and appearances for clubs such as Porto, Wolfsburg, and Valencia, as well as the Portugal national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricardo Costa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4956164 — 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: Ricardo Costa Context triple: [Costa, hasNotableBearer, Ricardo Costa]
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A.
Helder Costa
Hélder Costa is a professional Portuguese footballer known for his pacey wing play and spells at clubs such as Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leeds United, as well as representing both Portugal and Angola internationally.
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B.
Ricardo Carvalho
Ricardo Carvalho is a Portuguese former central defender renowned for his intelligent positioning, composure, and success with clubs like Porto, Chelsea, and Real Madrid, as well as his key role in Portugal’s national team.
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C.
Jorge Costa
Jorge Costa is a retired Portuguese central defender and football manager best known for his long and successful playing career with FC Porto and the Portugal national team.
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D.
Ricardo Soares
Ricardo Soares is a Portuguese football manager known for coaching several clubs in Portugal’s professional leagues.
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E.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
- 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: Ricardo Costa Target entity description: Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese former professional footballer best known for his defensive versatility and appearances for clubs such as Porto, Wolfsburg, and Valencia, as well as the Portugal national team.
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A.
Helder Costa
Hélder Costa is a professional Portuguese footballer known for his pacey wing play and spells at clubs such as Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leeds United, as well as representing both Portugal and Angola internationally.
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B.
Ricardo Carvalho
Ricardo Carvalho is a Portuguese former central defender renowned for his intelligent positioning, composure, and success with clubs like Porto, Chelsea, and Real Madrid, as well as his key role in Portugal’s national team.
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C.
Jorge Costa
Jorge Costa is a retired Portuguese central defender and football manager best known for his long and successful playing career with FC Porto and the Portugal national team.
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D.
Ricardo Soares
Ricardo Soares is a Portuguese football manager known for coaching several clubs in Portugal’s professional leagues.
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E.
Bruno Costa
Bruno Costa is a businessman best known as the co-founder of the British coffeehouse chain Costa Coffee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese footballer
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association football defender ⓘ human ⓘ |
| continentalTitleWon | UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-05-16 ⓘ |
| domesticCupWon |
Taça de Portugal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taça de Portugal 2002–03 NERFINISHED ⓘ Taça de Portugal 2003–04 NERFINISHED ⓘ Taça de Portugal 2005–06 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ricardo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| leagueTitleWon |
Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primeira Liga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeam |
Portugal national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portugal national under-21 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalCaps | 22 ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalGoals | 1 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2006 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2010 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Liga NERFINISHED ⓘ Ligue 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Primeira Liga NERFINISHED ⓘ Qatar Stars League NERFINISHED ⓘ Super League Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Swiss Super League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre-back
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left-back ⓘ right-back ⓘ |
| seniorClub |
Al-Sailiya SC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CD Tondela NERFINISHED ⓘ FC Luzern NERFINISHED ⓘ FC Porto NERFINISHED ⓘ FC Porto B NERFINISHED ⓘ Granada CF NERFINISHED ⓘ Lille OSC NERFINISHED ⓘ PAOK FC NERFINISHED ⓘ Valencia CF NERFINISHED ⓘ VfL Wolfsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superCupWon | Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetitionWithClub |
Bundesliga 2008–09 with VfL Wolfsburg
NERFINISHED
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Intercontinental Cup 2004 with FC Porto NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League 2003–04 with FC Porto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| youthClub |
Boavista FC
NERFINISHED
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Candal NERFINISHED ⓘ FC Porto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ricardo Costa Description of subject: Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese former professional footballer best known for his defensive versatility and appearances for clubs such as Porto, Wolfsburg, and Valencia, as well as the Portugal national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.