Matt Costa
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Matt Costa is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for his melodic indie folk and surf-influenced acoustic rock.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Costa canonical | 1 |
| Matthew Albert Costa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446291 — 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)
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Target entity: Matt Costa Context triple: [Brushfire Records, hasArtist, Matt Costa]
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A.
Robert Costa
Robert Costa is an American political journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on U.S. politics and coauthoring high-profile books on the Trump era.
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B.
Eric DeCosta
Eric DeCosta is an American football executive who serves as the general manager of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, overseeing the team's roster construction and football operations.
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C.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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D.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
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E.
Phil Martelli
Phil Martelli is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading Saint Joseph's University's men's basketball program, including an undefeated regular season in 2003–04.
- 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: Matt Costa Target entity description: Matt Costa is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for his melodic indie folk and surf-influenced acoustic rock.
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A.
Robert Costa
Robert Costa is an American political journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on U.S. politics and coauthoring high-profile books on the Trump era.
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B.
Eric DeCosta
Eric DeCosta is an American football executive who serves as the general manager of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, overseeing the team's roster construction and football operations.
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C.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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D.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
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E.
Phil Martelli
Phil Martelli is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading Saint Joseph's University's men's basketball program, including an undefeated regular season in 2003–04.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musician
ⓘ
person ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | California, United States ⓘ |
| birthName |
Matthew Albert Costa
ⓘ
linked to:
Matt Costa
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeScope | solo artist ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-06-16 ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic rock
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folk rock ⓘ indie folk ⓘ indie rock ⓘ surf rock ⓘ |
| hasActivityStart | early 2000s ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedAct |
Brushfire Records artists
ⓘ
Jack Johnson ⓘ Modest Mouse ⓘ No Doubt ⓘ |
| hasCreativeWorkType |
EP
ⓘ
single ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| hasGenreInfluence |
1960s pop
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classic rock ⓘ surf music ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
guitar
ⓘ
harmonica ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to film soundtracks
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melodic indie folk songs ⓘ surf-influenced acoustic rock ⓘ touring with Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Matt Costa (album)
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Mobile Chateau ⓘ Santa Rosa Fangs ⓘ Songs We Sing ⓘ Unfamiliar Faces ⓘ Yellow Coat ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Huntington Beach, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Huntington Beach
|
| recordLabel |
Bar/None Records
ⓘ
Brushfire Records ⓘ Dangerbird Records ⓘ |
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: Matt Costa Description of subject: Matt Costa is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for his melodic indie folk and surf-influenced acoustic rock.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Matt Costa