James Cobb
E291093
James Cobb is one of Dom Cobb’s young children in the film "Inception," appearing primarily in his father’s memories and dreams as a symbol of Cobb’s longing and guilt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Cobb canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2659016 — 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: James Cobb Context triple: [Dom Cobb, children, James Cobb]
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A.
Solomon Breedlove
Solomon Breedlove was the brother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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B.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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C.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
- 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: James Cobb Target entity description: James Cobb is one of Dom Cobb’s young children in the film "Inception," appearing primarily in his father’s memories and dreams as a symbol of Cobb’s longing and guilt.
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A.
Solomon Breedlove
Solomon Breedlove was the brother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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B.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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C.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageInStory | young child ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Inception ⓘ |
| appearsPrimarilyIn |
Dom Cobb’s dreams
ⓘ
Dom Cobb’s memories ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ loss ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| childOf | Dom Cobb ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Christopher Nolan ⓘ |
| diegeticStatus | off-screen presence for most of the film ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Inception ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Inception
ⓘ
surface form:
Inception (2010 film)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasFather | Dom Cobb ⓘ |
| hasMother | Mal Cobb ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
symbol of Dom Cobb’s guilt
ⓘ
symbol of Dom Cobb’s longing ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalFamily | Cobb family ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | young son of Dom Cobb ⓘ |
| sibling | Philippa Cobb ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2010 ⓘ |
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: James Cobb Description of subject: James Cobb is one of Dom Cobb’s young children in the film "Inception," appearing primarily in his father’s memories and dreams as a symbol of Cobb’s longing and guilt.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.