Cobham plc
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Cobham plc was a British aerospace and defense company known for providing advanced technology and services in areas such as air-to-air refueling, communications, and aviation support to military and commercial customers worldwide.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobham Aviation Services | 2 |
| Cobham Limited | 2 |
| Cobham Mission Systems | 2 |
| Cobham Aerospace Communications | 1 |
| Cobham plc canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12934538 — 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: Cobham plc Context triple: [Cobham Aviation Services Australia (historical), parentCompany, Cobham plc]
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A.
QinetiQ
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B.
Serco Group
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C.
Marshall Aerospace
Marshall Aerospace is a British aerospace engineering and defense company known for its aircraft maintenance, modification, and conversion services for military and civilian fleets.
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D.
Hughes Radar Systems Group
Hughes Radar Systems Group was a division of Hughes Aircraft Company specializing in the development and production of advanced airborne radar systems for military aircraft.
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E.
Reach plc
Reach plc is a major British newspaper and digital publisher that owns and operates numerous national and regional media brands across the UK, including the Daily Mirror.
- 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: Cobham plc Target entity description: Cobham plc was a British aerospace and defense company known for providing advanced technology and services in areas such as air-to-air refueling, communications, and aviation support to military and commercial customers worldwide.
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A.
QinetiQ
QinetiQ is a British multinational defence technology and security company that provides research, testing, and consultancy services to military, government, and commercial clients worldwide.
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B.
Serco Group
Serco Group is a British multinational outsourcing company that provides public services in sectors such as defense, transport, justice, immigration, and healthcare for governments and other organizations worldwide.
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C.
Marshall Aerospace
Marshall Aerospace is a British aerospace engineering and defense company known for its aircraft maintenance, modification, and conversion services for military and civilian fleets.
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D.
Hughes Radar Systems Group
Hughes Radar Systems Group was a division of Hughes Aircraft Company specializing in the development and production of advanced airborne radar systems for military aircraft.
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E.
Reach plc
Reach plc is a major British newspaper and digital publisher that owns and operates numerous national and regional media brands across the UK, including the Daily Mirror.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace company
ⓘ
defence company ⓘ public limited company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Advent International ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompleted | 2020 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formerName | Flight Refuelling Limited ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Sir Alan Cobham ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 10,000 (approximate, late 2010s) ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Cobham Antenna Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Cobham SATCOM
Cobham Aviation Services ⓘ
linked to:
Cobham plc
Cobham Communications and Connectivity ⓘ
linked to:
Cobham SATCOM
Cobham Mission Systems ⓘ
linked to:
Cobham plc
Cobham SATCOM ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Wimborne Minster
|
| inception | 1934 ⓘ |
| indexMembership | FTSE 250 Index ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
communications ⓘ defence ⓘ |
| listedOn | London Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| namedAfter | founder Alan Cobham ⓘ |
| notableCustomer |
NATO
ⓘ
Royal Air Force ⓘ United States Air Force ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| provided |
air-to-air refuelling pods
ⓘ
aviation training services ⓘ mission systems for military aircraft ⓘ refuelling drogues ⓘ satellite communications terminals ⓘ secure communications systems ⓘ special mission flight operations ⓘ |
| serves |
commercial aviation customers
ⓘ
military customers ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
aerospace communications systems
ⓘ
air-to-air refuelling systems ⓘ antennas ⓘ aviation support services ⓘ electronic warfare systems ⓘ satcom equipment ⓘ surveillance systems ⓘ |
| status |
no longer listed on London Stock Exchange
ⓘ
taken private ⓘ |
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: Cobham plc Description of subject: Cobham plc was a British aerospace and defense company known for providing advanced technology and services in areas such as air-to-air refueling, communications, and aviation support to military and commercial customers worldwide.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cobham plc
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linked to: Cobham plc
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linked to: Cobham plc
linked to: Cobham plc
linked to: Cobham plc