Lúcio Costa
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Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília’s master plan and a key figure in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lúcio Costa canonical | 33 |
| Lucio Costa | 2 |
| Lúcio Costa (architect) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T195925 — 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: Lúcio Costa Context triple: [Oscar Niemeyer, collaboratedWith, Lúcio Costa]
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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B.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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C.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering 20th-century German-American architect known for his minimalist “less is more” philosophy and influential modernist buildings such as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Seagram Building.
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D.
Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn was a 20th-century American architect renowned for his monumental, geometric buildings and masterful use of light and materials, which profoundly shaped modern architecture.
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E.
I. M. Pei
I. M. Pei was a renowned Chinese-American architect celebrated for his modernist designs, including iconic museums and cultural landmarks around the world.
- 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: Lúcio Costa Target entity description: Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília’s master plan and a key figure in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil.
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A.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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B.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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C.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering 20th-century German-American architect known for his minimalist “less is more” philosophy and influential modernist buildings such as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Seagram Building.
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D.
Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn was a 20th-century American architect renowned for his monumental, geometric buildings and masterful use of light and materials, which profoundly shaped modern architecture.
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E.
I. M. Pei
I. M. Pei was a renowned Chinese-American architect celebrated for his modernist designs, including iconic museums and cultural landmarks around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lúcio Costa Description of subject: Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília’s master plan and a key figure in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lúcio Costa
subject linked to:
Athos Bulcão (artist)
subject linked to:
Ministry of Education and Health building (as planner)
linked to: Lúcio Costa
subject linked to:
UNESCO World Heritage Site Brasília
subject linked to:
UNESCO World Heritage Site Brasília
linked to: Lúcio Costa
subject linked to:
French Embassy in Brasília (as collaborator)