COBS
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COBS is a key part of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Handbook that sets detailed rules and guidance for how financial firms must conduct business with their clients.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COBS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9288632 — 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: COBS Context triple: [Conduct of Business Sourcebook, abbreviation, COBS]
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A.
COOB
COOB is the namesake associated with Cobi, the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
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B.
COB
COB is the College of Business at California State University, Long Beach, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in various business disciplines.
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C.
COBR
COBR is the commonly used acronym for the United Kingdom government’s emergency response committee that convenes in the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms to coordinate crisis management.
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D.
BRCOB
BRCOB is the UN/LOCODE identifying the Brazilian river port city of Corumbá, an important logistics hub near the Bolivia border.
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E.
CYSB
CYSB is the ICAO airport code for Greater Sudbury Airport, a regional airport serving the city of Greater Sudbury in Ontario, Canada.
- 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: COBS Target entity description: COBS is a key part of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Handbook that sets detailed rules and guidance for how financial firms must conduct business with their clients.
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A.
COOB
COOB is the namesake associated with Cobi, the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
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B.
COB
COB is the College of Business at California State University, Long Beach, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in various business disciplines.
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C.
COBR
COBR is the commonly used acronym for the United Kingdom government’s emergency response committee that convenes in the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms to coordinate crisis management.
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D.
BRCOB
BRCOB is the UN/LOCODE identifying the Brazilian river port city of Corumbá, an important logistics hub near the Bolivia border.
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E.
CYSB
CYSB is the ICAO airport code for Greater Sudbury Airport, a regional airport serving the city of Greater Sudbury in Ontario, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FCA Handbook sourcebook
ⓘ
regulatory rulebook section ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
MiFID investment firms
ⓘ
asset managers ⓘ authorised firms ⓘ banks ⓘ insurance intermediaries ⓘ platform service providers ⓘ product providers ⓘ retail investment advisers ⓘ stockbrokers ⓘ |
| basedOn | Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ⓘ |
| clientTypesCovered |
eligible counterparties
ⓘ
professional clients ⓘ retail clients ⓘ |
| contains |
definitions
ⓘ
evidential provisions ⓘ guidance ⓘ rules ⓘ |
| fullName |
Conduct of Business Sourcebook
ⓘ
linked to:
conduct of business sourcebook (COBS)
|
| implements |
IDD conduct of business requirements
ⓘ
MiFID conduct of business requirements ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| legalStatus | binding rules for authorised firms ⓘ |
| location |
FCA Handbook online
ⓘ
linked to:
FCA Handbook
|
| maintainedBy | Financial Conduct Authority ⓘ |
| partOf | FCA Handbook ⓘ |
| predecessorRegulator | Financial Services Authority ⓘ |
| purpose |
to ensure fair treatment of clients
ⓘ
to implement UK and EU conduct requirements ⓘ to promote market integrity ⓘ |
| regulates |
advising and selling standards
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appropriateness assessments ⓘ best execution ⓘ client categorisation ⓘ client order handling ⓘ communications with clients ⓘ conduct of business with clients ⓘ disclosure of costs and charges ⓘ distance marketing of retail financial services ⓘ financial promotions ⓘ inducements and conflicts of interest ⓘ insurance-based investment products ⓘ packaged products ⓘ pension transfers and opt-outs ⓘ personal recommendations to retail clients ⓘ suitability of advice ⓘ |
| regulator | Financial Conduct Authority ⓘ |
| updatedBy | FCA policy statements ⓘ |
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: COBS Description of subject: COBS is a key part of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Handbook that sets detailed rules and guidance for how financial firms must conduct business with their clients.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
conduct of business sourcebook (COBS)