Jayne Cobb
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Jayne Cobb is a tough, heavily armed mercenary and crew member aboard the spaceship Serenity in the science-fiction TV series "Firefly."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jayne Cobb canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13174686 — 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: Jayne Cobb Context triple: [Firefly, hasMainCharacter, Jayne Cobb]
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A.
Jayne
Jayne is a surname most notably associated with English actress Jennifer Jayne, known for her work in mid-20th-century British film and television.
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B.
Elizabeth Cobb
Elizabeth Cobb was the daughter of American humorist and author Irvin S. Cobb.
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C.
Eileen Creed
Eileen Creed is an individual whose full name corresponds to the person known as Ellie Creed.
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D.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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E.
Elizabeth Hunter
Elizabeth Hunter was the birth name of Elizabeth Hunter Seward, known primarily in relation to her married identity.
- 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: Jayne Cobb Target entity description: Jayne Cobb is a tough, heavily armed mercenary and crew member aboard the spaceship Serenity in the science-fiction TV series "Firefly."
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A.
Jayne
Jayne is a surname most notably associated with English actress Jennifer Jayne, known for her work in mid-20th-century British film and television.
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B.
Elizabeth Cobb
Elizabeth Cobb was the daughter of American humorist and author Irvin S. Cobb.
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C.
Eileen Creed
Eileen Creed is an individual whose full name corresponds to the person known as Ellie Creed.
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D.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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E.
Elizabeth Hunter
Elizabeth Hunter was the birth name of Elizabeth Hunter Seward, known primarily in relation to her married identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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mercenary ⓘ outlaw ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | crew of Serenity ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Firefly
NERFINISHED
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Serenity (2005 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode |
Ariel
NERFINISHED
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Jaynestown NERFINISHED ⓘ Objects in Space NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of Gas NERFINISHED ⓘ Serenity (Firefly pilot) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Canton (during "Jaynestown") NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Joss Whedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Firefly universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Firefly episode "Serenity" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| homeworld | Canton (moon) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic relief
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heavy weaponry ⓘ self-interest ⓘ toughness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyaltyTo |
Malcolm Reynolds
NERFINISHED
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Serenity crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Serenity crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableItem | orange knit cap ⓘ |
| occupation |
hired gun
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mercenary ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
brutally honest
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greedy ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Adam Baldwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Hoban Washburne
NERFINISHED
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Inara Serra NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaylee Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ Malcolm Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ River Tam NERFINISHED ⓘ Shepherd Book NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Tam NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoe Washburne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
26th century
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border worlds ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| weapon | Vera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponType | Callahan full-bore auto-lock rifle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksOn | spaceship Serenity ⓘ |
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: Jayne Cobb Description of subject: Jayne Cobb is a tough, heavily armed mercenary and crew member aboard the spaceship Serenity in the science-fiction TV series "Firefly."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.