COFF
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COFF (Common Object File Format) is a standard file format used primarily on Unix-like and Windows systems for object code, executables, and shared libraries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COFF canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2792351 — 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: COFF Context triple: [GNU Binutils, supportsFormat, COFF]
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A.
COFHE
COFHE is a consortium of highly selective private colleges and universities in the United States that collaborates on issues of financial aid, admissions, and institutional research.
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B.
COF
COF is the stock ticker symbol for Capital One Financial Corporation, a major U.S.-based bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products.
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C.
CFF
CFF is the French-language abbreviation for the Swiss Federal Railways, the national railway company of Switzerland.
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D.
Cif
Cif is a household cleaning product brand known for its creams and sprays used to remove tough dirt and stains from various surfaces.
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E.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
- 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: COFF Target entity description: COFF (Common Object File Format) is a standard file format used primarily on Unix-like and Windows systems for object code, executables, and shared libraries.
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A.
COFHE
COFHE is a consortium of highly selective private colleges and universities in the United States that collaborates on issues of financial aid, admissions, and institutional research.
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B.
COF
COF is the stock ticker symbol for Capital One Financial Corporation, a major U.S.-based bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products.
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C.
CFF
CFF is the French-language abbreviation for the Swiss Federal Railways, the national railway company of Switzerland.
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D.
Cif
Cif is a household cleaning product brand known for its creams and sprays used to remove tough dirt and stains from various surfaces.
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E.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | object file format ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Common Object File Format ⓘ |
| category |
binary formats
ⓘ
executable file formats ⓘ linker and loader formats ⓘ |
| fileType | binary file format ⓘ |
| fullName | Common Object File Format ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
file header
ⓘ
section data ⓘ section headers ⓘ string table ⓘ symbol table ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
relocation entries
ⓘ
sections ⓘ storage classes ⓘ symbols ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal |
linker interoperability
ⓘ
support for relocatable code ⓘ support for separate compilation ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
supports debug symbol storage
ⓘ
supports multiple sections per file ⓘ supports separate code and data sections ⓘ |
| influenced |
PE format
ⓘ
PE32 format ⓘ PE32+ format ⓘ |
| isExtendedBy |
ECOFF
ⓘ
PE (Portable Executable) ⓘ XCOFF ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ELF format
ⓘ
a.out format ⓘ |
| supports |
debugging information
ⓘ
relocation information ⓘ symbol tables ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
ARM
ⓘ
MIPS ⓘ x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
older Unix systems ⓘ |
| usedBy |
assemblers
ⓘ
compilers ⓘ linkers ⓘ loaders ⓘ |
| usedFor |
executables
ⓘ
object code ⓘ shared libraries ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Unix-like systems
ⓘ
Windows systems ⓘ |
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: COFF Description of subject: COFF (Common Object File Format) is a standard file format used primarily on Unix-like and Windows systems for object code, executables, and shared libraries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.