Cobbing
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Cobbing is a Quidditch foul in the Harry Potter universe involving excessive or aggressive use of the elbows against other players.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobbing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8335940 — 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: Cobbing Context triple: [Quidditch, hasFoulType, Cobbing]
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A.
Shottery
Shottery is a small historic village on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, best known as the home of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.
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B.
Clay
Clay is the birth surname of the legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
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C.
Clay
Clay is the tough, strategic leader of the elite black-ops team in the 2010 action film "The Losers."
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D.
Gipsformerei
Gipsformerei is the historic plaster casting workshop and collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, renowned for producing and preserving high-quality casts of artworks and cultural monuments from around the world.
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E.
Spodek
Spodek is a distinctive, saucer-shaped multipurpose arena and entertainment venue located in Katowice, Poland.
- 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: Cobbing Target entity description: Cobbing is a Quidditch foul in the Harry Potter universe involving excessive or aggressive use of the elbows against other players.
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A.
Shottery
Shottery is a small historic village on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, best known as the home of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.
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B.
Clay
Clay is the birth surname of the legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
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C.
Clay
Clay is the tough, strategic leader of the elite black-ops team in the 2010 action film "The Losers."
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D.
Gipsformerei
Gipsformerei is the historic plaster casting workshop and collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, renowned for producing and preserving high-quality casts of artworks and cultural monuments from around the world.
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E.
Spodek
Spodek is a distinctive, saucer-shaped multipurpose arena and entertainment venue located in Katowice, Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Quidditch foul ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quidditch Through the Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Quidditch rules and fouls ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| description |
aggressive use of the elbows against other players
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excessive use of the elbows against other players ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Quidditch officials ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Potter universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvesBodyPart | elbows ⓘ |
| isIllegalAction | true ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Quidditch rulebook (in-universe) ⓘ |
| nature | contact foul ⓘ |
| occursDuring | Quidditch match ⓘ |
| penalizedBy | Quidditch referee ⓘ |
| purposeOfRule | to prevent dangerous elbowing in mid-air ⓘ |
| sport | Quidditch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| target | opposing players ⓘ |
| termType | sports slang (fictional) ⓘ |
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: Cobbing Description of subject: Cobbing is a Quidditch foul in the Harry Potter universe involving excessive or aggressive use of the elbows against other players.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.