Cobi
E133619
Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobi canonical | 10 |
| Cobi (Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games mascot) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1168141 — 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: Cobi Context triple: [1992 Summer Olympics, mascot, Cobi]
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A.
Kiko
Kiko is the young, albino giant ape who serves as the gentle offspring and companion of King Kong in the 1933 film "Son of Kong."
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B.
Bubi
Bubi is the nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter pilot who became history’s highest-scoring flying ace.
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C.
Pinky
Pinky is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan that explores race, identity, and passing in the segregated American South.
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D.
Chappy
Chappy is the informal nickname for Chappaquiddick Island, a small island off the eastern end of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cobi Target entity description: Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
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A.
Kiko
Kiko is the young, albino giant ape who serves as the gentle offspring and companion of King Kong in the 1933 film "Son of Kong."
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B.
Bubi
Bubi is the nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter pilot who became history’s highest-scoring flying ace.
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C.
Pinky
Pinky is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan that explores race, identity, and passing in the segregated American South.
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D.
Chappy
Chappy is the informal nickname for Chappaquiddick Island, a small island off the eastern end of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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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
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic mascot
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animal mascot ⓘ cartoon character ⓘ fictional dog ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
advertising campaigns for Barcelona 1992
ⓘ
animated television series ⓘ |
| artStyle | cubist style ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Barcelona ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | 1992 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Barcelona 1992 Organising Committee
ⓘ
linked to:
Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee
International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Catalonia ⓘ |
| associatedWithSportEventType |
Summer Olympics
ⓘ
linked to:
Olympic Games
|
| characterBreed | Catalan sheepdog ⓘ |
| characterSpecies | dog ⓘ |
| colorPalette | simplified flat colors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Javier Mariscal ⓘ |
| depicts | Catalan sheepdog ⓘ |
| designer | Javier Mariscal ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Barcelona 1992 Olympic marketing ⓘ |
| followedBy | Izzy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGenre | sports mascot character ⓘ |
| inception | 1987 ⓘ |
| languageOfPromotion |
Catalan
ⓘ
English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| mediaType |
animation
ⓘ
merchandise figurine ⓘ print illustration ⓘ |
| namedAfter | COOB ⓘ |
| nameEtymology |
derived from COOB, the Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee acronym
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linked to:
Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee
|
| nationalityInFiction | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
unconventional cubist design for an Olympic mascot
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wide merchandising presence during Barcelona 1992 ⓘ |
| partOf | Olympic mascot tradition ⓘ |
| precededBy | Hodori ⓘ |
| role |
official mascot of the 1992 Summer Olympics
ⓘ
official mascot of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
general Olympic spectators ⓘ |
| unveiledIn | 1987 ⓘ |
| usedAsMascotIn | 1992 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Olympic marketing
ⓘ
merchandising ⓘ television advertising ⓘ |
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: Cobi Description of subject: Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cobi