Dom Cobb
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Dom Cobb is the skilled professional thief and extractor who leads dream-infiltration heists in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film "Inception."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dom Cobb canonical | 17 |
| Dominick Cobb | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433892 — 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: Dom Cobb Context triple: [Leonardo DiCaprio, portrayed, Dom Cobb]
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A.
John Kenway
John Kenway is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
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B.
Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is a fictional amnesiac assassin and highly skilled operative at the center of Robert Ludlum’s spy novels and the popular action-thriller film series.
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C.
Ray
Ray is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Raymond.
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D.
Kyle Reese
Kyle Reese is a time-traveling resistance fighter from the Terminator franchise, best known as John Connor’s father and protector of Sarah Connor against Skynet’s machines.
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E.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
- 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: Dom Cobb Target entity description: Dom Cobb is the skilled professional thief and extractor who leads dream-infiltration heists in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film "Inception."
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A.
John Kenway
John Kenway is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
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B.
Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is a fictional amnesiac assassin and highly skilled operative at the center of Robert Ludlum’s spy novels and the popular action-thriller film series.
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C.
Ray
Ray is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Raymond.
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D.
Kyle Reese
Kyle Reese is a time-traveling resistance fighter from the Terminator franchise, best known as John Connor’s father and protector of Sarah Connor against Skynet’s machines.
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E.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Inception ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
inception
ⓘ
limbo ⓘ shared dreaming ⓘ |
| children |
James Cobb
ⓘ
Philippa Cobb ⓘ |
| createdBy | Christopher Nolan ⓘ |
| createdInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | Saito ⓘ |
| feelsGuiltFor | Mal Cobb's suicide ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Christopher Nolan ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| filmWriter | Christopher Nolan ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Inception
ⓘ
surface form:
Inception (2010 film)
|
| fullName |
Dom Cobb
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dominick Cobb
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction heist ⓘ |
| goal | return to his children ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Cobb ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | fugitive ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explores themes of reality and dreams ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene |
limbo city with Mal
ⓘ
rotating hallway dream heist ⓘ snow fortress dream level ⓘ |
| occupation |
extractor
ⓘ
thief ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ |
| primarySetting | shared dream worlds ⓘ |
| role | protagonist of Inception ⓘ |
| setInWorkYear | early 21st century ⓘ |
| specialization |
dream infiltration
ⓘ
subconscious extraction ⓘ |
| spouse | Mal Cobb ⓘ |
| task | perform inception on Robert Fischer ⓘ |
| teamRole | team leader ⓘ |
| trauma | death of Mal Cobb ⓘ |
| usesObject | spinning top totem ⓘ |
| wantedFor | suspicion of murdering Mal Cobb ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Ariadne
ⓘ
Arthur ⓘ Eames ⓘ Yusuf ⓘ |
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: Dom Cobb Description of subject: Dom Cobb is the skilled professional thief and extractor who leads dream-infiltration heists in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film "Inception."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eames (Inception)
subject surface form:
Inception