Kostal
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Kostal is a surname most notably associated with American musical arranger and conductor Irwin Kostal, known for his work on classic film and stage musicals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kostal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9069256 — 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: Kostal Context triple: [Irwin Kostal, familyName, Kostal]
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A.
Bosch
Bosch is a multinational engineering and technology company best known for its automotive components, industrial products, and household appliances.
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B.
Bosch
Bosch is a critically acclaimed American crime drama television series centered on LAPD detective Harry Bosch, adapted from Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels.
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C.
Diehl
Diehl is the middle name of Newton D. Baker, an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War during World War I.
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D.
Eaton
Eaton is a surname most notably associated with American decathlete and Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton.
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E.
Eaton
Eaton is the namesake of the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, an endowed academic chair in political science and government studies.
- 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: Kostal Target entity description: Kostal is a surname most notably associated with American musical arranger and conductor Irwin Kostal, known for his work on classic film and stage musicals.
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A.
Bosch
Bosch is a multinational engineering and technology company best known for its automotive components, industrial products, and household appliances.
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B.
Bosch
Bosch is a critically acclaimed American crime drama television series centered on LAPD detective Harry Bosch, adapted from Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels.
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C.
Diehl
Diehl is the middle name of Newton D. Baker, an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War during World War I.
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D.
Eaton
Eaton is a surname most notably associated with American decathlete and Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton.
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E.
Eaton
Eaton is the namesake of the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, an endowed academic chair in political science and government studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kostal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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stage musical ⓘ |
| givenName | Irwin ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| notability | known for arranging and conducting music for classic film and stage musicals ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Irwin Kostal ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
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The Sound of Music (1965 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Sound of Music
West Side Story (1961 film) ⓘ
linked to:
West Side Story
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| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
conductor ⓘ musical arranger ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Kostal Description of subject: Kostal is a surname most notably associated with American musical arranger and conductor Irwin Kostal, known for his work on classic film and stage musicals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kostal