Cobham
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Cobham is a British aerospace and defense company known for supplying advanced air-to-air refueling systems and mission-critical communication technologies to military and civil aircraft programs worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8826093 — 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: Cobham Context triple: [KC-390, hasRefuelingSystemSupplier, Cobham]
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A.
Cobham
Cobham is a village in Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character, proximity to London, and scenic riverside setting.
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B.
Cobham
Cobham is a clan associated with the Efik people, an ethnic group primarily found in southeastern Nigeria.
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C.
Chobham
Chobham is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its rural character, common land, and historic buildings.
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D.
Camberley
Camberley is a suburban town in southeast England known for its shopping centre, commuter links to London, and proximity to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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E.
Beckenham
Beckenham is a suburban town in southeast London known for its residential character, green spaces, and commuter links into central London.
- 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: Cobham Target entity description: Cobham is a British aerospace and defense company known for supplying advanced air-to-air refueling systems and mission-critical communication technologies to military and civil aircraft programs worldwide.
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A.
Cobham
Cobham is a village in Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character, proximity to London, and scenic riverside setting.
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B.
Cobham
Cobham is a clan associated with the Efik people, an ethnic group primarily found in southeastern Nigeria.
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C.
Chobham
Chobham is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its rural character, common land, and historic buildings.
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D.
Camberley
Camberley is a suburban town in southeast England known for its shopping centre, commuter links to London, and proximity to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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E.
Beckenham
Beckenham is a suburban town in southeast London known for its residential character, green spaces, and commuter links into central London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace company
ⓘ
public limited company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Advent International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2020 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formerName | Flight Refuelling Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Sir Alan Cobham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessDivision |
Cobham Aviation Services
NERFINISHED
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Cobham Communications and Connectivity NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobham Mission Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
mission-critical applications
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safety-critical aerospace systems ⓘ |
| hasKeyCapability |
air-to-air refuelling for tanker aircraft
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secure communications for defence platforms ⓘ surveillance and reconnaissance support systems ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Cobham Aerospace Communications
NERFINISHED
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Cobham Aviation Services Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobham SATCOM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1934 ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
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communications ⓘ defence ⓘ |
| listedOn | London Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | development of modern air-to-air refuelling technology ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
civil aviation
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military aviation ⓘ space and satellite communications ⓘ |
| partOfIndex | FTSE 250 Index NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productOrService |
aerospace oxygen systems
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air-to-air refuelling pods ⓘ aircraft mission systems integration ⓘ life-support equipment ⓘ radio and data links ⓘ refuelling drogues ⓘ refuelling probes ⓘ satcom antennas ⓘ |
| servesCustomer |
air forces worldwide
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commercial airlines ⓘ defence ministries ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
aerospace subsystems
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air-to-air refuelling systems ⓘ defence electronics ⓘ mission-critical communications systems ⓘ |
| suppliesTo |
civil aircraft programs
ⓘ
military aircraft programs ⓘ |
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: Cobham Description of subject: Cobham is a British aerospace and defense company known for supplying advanced air-to-air refueling systems and mission-critical communication technologies to military and civil aircraft programs worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
KC-390