Alibaba Cloud
E108295
cloud computing service provider
infrastructure as a service provider
platform as a service provider
software as a service provider
subsidiary
Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud canonical | 8 |
| Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group | 1 |
| Aliyun | 1 |
| Baidu Cloud | 1 |
| Elastic Compute Service | 1 |
| MaxCompute | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919504 — 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: Alibaba Cloud Context triple: [Alibaba Group, owns, Alibaba Cloud]
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A.
Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for building, deploying, and managing applications and infrastructure through Microsoft-managed data centers.
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B.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a leading global cloud computing platform offering on-demand infrastructure, storage, and application services to businesses, developers, and institutions.
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C.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is Alphabet Inc.'s cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, platform, and software services for building, deploying, and scaling applications and data solutions.
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D.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle Corporation’s suite of cloud computing services that provides scalable compute, storage, networking, and platform capabilities for enterprise workloads.
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E.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
- 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: Alibaba Cloud Target entity description: Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
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A.
Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for building, deploying, and managing applications and infrastructure through Microsoft-managed data centers.
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B.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a leading global cloud computing platform offering on-demand infrastructure, storage, and application services to businesses, developers, and institutions.
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C.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is Alphabet Inc.'s cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, platform, and software services for building, deploying, and scaling applications and data solutions.
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D.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle Corporation’s suite of cloud computing services that provides scalable compute, storage, networking, and platform capabilities for enterprise workloads.
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E.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud computing service provider
ⓘ
infrastructure as a service provider ⓘ platform as a service provider ⓘ software as a service provider ⓘ subsidiary ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alibaba Cloud
ⓘ
surface form:
Aliyun
|
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Alibaba Group ⓘ |
| hasDataCenterRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Japan ⓘ China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
Singapore ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ United States East ⓘ western United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States West
|
| headquartersLocation |
Hangzhou
ⓘ
surface form:
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
|
| industry |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ data management ⓘ information technology services ⓘ |
| languageOfService |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ other Asia-Pacific languages ⓘ |
| launchYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| notableUseCase |
supporting Alibaba Group e-commerce platforms
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supporting large-scale online events such as Singles Day (11.11) shopping festival ⓘ |
| offersProduct |
Alibaba Cloud CDN
ⓘ
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes ⓘ Alibaba Cloud DNS ⓘ Alibaba Cloud Log Service ⓘ Alibaba Cloud Security Center ⓘ AnalyticDB ⓘ ApsaraDB for RDS ⓘ Cloud Enterprise Network ⓘ Azure Data Factory ⓘ
surface form:
DataWorks
DingTalk ⓘ
surface form:
DingTalk (enterprise collaboration platform integration)
Alibaba Cloud self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Elastic Compute Service
Function Compute ⓘ Alibaba Cloud self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MaxCompute
Object Storage Service ⓘ PolarDB ⓘ Quick BI ⓘ Server Load Balancer ⓘ Web Application Firewall ⓘ |
| offersService |
AI and machine learning services
ⓘ
IoT services ⓘ big data analytics services ⓘ compute services ⓘ database services ⓘ enterprise applications ⓘ networking services ⓘ security services ⓘ storage services ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Alibaba Group ⓘ |
| providesCompliance |
GDPR-related controls for EU customers
ⓘ
ISO 27001 certification ⓘ SOC reports ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
China ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
global ⓘ |
| serviceType |
Infrastructure as a Service
ⓘ
Platform as a Service ⓘ Software as a Service ⓘ hybrid cloud ⓘ private cloud solutions ⓘ public cloud ⓘ |
| supportsDeploymentModel |
hybrid cloud architectures
ⓘ
multi-cloud ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
developers
ⓘ
enterprises ⓘ small and medium-sized businesses ⓘ startups ⓘ |
| website | https://www.alibabacloud.com ⓘ |
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: Alibaba Cloud Description of subject: Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group (minority stake holder context; ownership structure complex)
→
hasSubsidiary
→
Alibaba Cloud
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group (minority stake holder context; ownership structure complex)
→
hasMajorBusinessUnit
→
Alibaba Cloud
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Alibaba Group
this entity surface form:
Aliyun
this entity surface form:
Elastic Compute Service
this entity surface form:
MaxCompute
this entity surface form:
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group
this entity surface form:
Baidu Cloud