Billy Costigan
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Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Costigan canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433901 — 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: Billy Costigan Context triple: [Leonardo DiCaprio, portrayed, Billy Costigan]
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A.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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B.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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C.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
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D.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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E.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
- 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: Billy Costigan Target entity description: Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
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A.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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B.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
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C.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
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D.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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E.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Massachusetts State Police ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Departed ⓘ |
| basedOn | Chen Yongren ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Infernal Affairs ⓘ |
| createdBy | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts State Police ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Colin Sullivan ⓘ |
| familyBackground | South Boston ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime thriller film ⓘ |
| infiltrates | Irish mob ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Dignam
ⓘ
Queenan ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
emotional volatility
ⓘ
high intelligence ⓘ strong moral code ⓘ |
| occupation | undercover police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | maintaining cover while serving the police ⓘ |
| primaryThemeAssociation |
corruption
ⓘ
identity ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| riskLevel | highly dangerous assignment ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Madolyn Madden ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| undercoverAgainst | Frank Costello ⓘ |
| undercoverRole | member of Frank Costello's crew ⓘ |
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: Billy Costigan Description of subject: Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Madolyn Madden in The Departed
subject linked to:
Dr. Madolyn Madden in The Departed