Coby
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Coby is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or nickname, particularly for names like Jacoba or Jacob.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10289187 — 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: Coby Context triple: [Jacoba, hasShortForm, Coby]
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A.
Cobi
Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
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B.
Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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C.
Toby
Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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D.
Toby
Toby is one of the central sailor protagonists in Herman Melville’s semi-autobiographical novel "Typee," known for his role in the narrative of escape and survival among a Polynesian tribe.
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E.
Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
- 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: Coby Target entity description: Coby is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or nickname, particularly for names like Jacoba or Jacob.
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A.
Cobi
Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
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B.
Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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C.
Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
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D.
Toby
Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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E.
Toby
Toby is one of the central sailor protagonists in Herman Melville’s semi-autobiographical novel "Typee," known for his role in the narrative of escape and survival among a Polynesian tribe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
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hypocorism ⓘ |
| canBeSpelledAs | Coby ⓘ |
| category |
English unisex given names
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Hypocorisms ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Hebrew given name Jacob ⓘ |
| hasGenderUsage | unisex name ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Cobe
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Cobi ⓘ Kobi ⓘ Koby ⓘ
linked to:
Coby
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| languageOfUse |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| shortFormOf |
Jacob
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Jacoba ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | informal ⓘ |
| usedAsDiminutiveOf |
Jacob
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Jacoba ⓘ |
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: Coby Description of subject: Coby is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or nickname, particularly for names like Jacoba or Jacob.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Coby
linked to: Coby
linked to: Coby