David Acosta
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David Acosta is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Evil," portrayed as a priest-in-training who investigates unexplained phenomena alongside a psychologist and a tech expert.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Acosta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394531 — 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: David Acosta Context triple: [Evil (TV series episodes), follows, David Acosta]
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A.
Rafael Acosta
Rafael Acosta is a central figure in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," embodying the absurdities and hypocrisies of upper-middle-class society.
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B.
David Mendoza
David Mendoza was a composer and conductor active in early 20th-century cinema, known for his work on silent film scores.
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C.
David Arellano
David Arellano was a Chilean footballer and influential early 20th-century sports figure best known for co-founding and starring for the club Colo-Colo.
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D.
Xavier Atencio
Xavier Atencio was an American animator and Imagineer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated films and wrote iconic theme park attraction scripts and songs.
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E.
Jorge Acosta
Jorge Acosta was a Mexican archaeologist known for his pioneering excavations and research at important pre-Columbian sites.
- 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: David Acosta Target entity description: David Acosta is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Evil," portrayed as a priest-in-training who investigates unexplained phenomena alongside a psychologist and a tech expert.
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A.
Rafael Acosta
Rafael Acosta is a central figure in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," embodying the absurdities and hypocrisies of upper-middle-class society.
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B.
David Mendoza
David Mendoza was a composer and conductor active in early 20th-century cinema, known for his work on silent film scores.
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C.
David Arellano
David Arellano was a Chilean footballer and influential early 20th-century sports figure best known for co-founding and starring for the club Colo-Colo.
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D.
Xavier Atencio
Xavier Atencio was an American animator and Imagineer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated films and wrote iconic theme park attraction scripts and songs.
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E.
Jorge Acosta
Jorge Acosta was a Mexican archaeologist known for his pioneering excavations and research at important pre-Columbian sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Evil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | diocese in Evil ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (series context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Michelle King
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Evil season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | supernatural drama ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
investigative skills
ⓘ
theological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
faith-driven
ⓘ
morally conscientious ⓘ |
| investigates |
alleged miracles
ⓘ
demonic possession ⓘ supernatural occurrences ⓘ unexplained phenomena ⓘ |
| language | English (portrayed speaking) ⓘ |
| laterAppearsOnPlatform | Paramount+ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | examines boundary between faith and science ⓘ |
| occupation |
assessor for the Catholic Church
ⓘ
priest-in-training ⓘ |
| partner |
Ben Shakir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kristen Bouchard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mike Colter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| roleInSeries | central character ⓘ |
| teamMemberOf | assessment team in Evil ⓘ |
| trainingFor | Catholic priesthood ⓘ |
| worksFor | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: David Acosta Description of subject: David Acosta is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Evil," portrayed as a priest-in-training who investigates unexplained phenomena alongside a psychologist and a tech expert.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.