Worldline
E132005
Worldline is a French multinational company specializing in payment and transactional services, recognized as a major European player in digital payments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Worldline canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1151516 — 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: Worldline Context triple: [CAC 40, hasComponent, Worldline]
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A.
Chase Paymentech
Chase Paymentech is a payment processing and merchant services provider specializing in credit card and electronic transaction solutions for businesses.
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B.
Girobank
Girobank was a British state-owned financial institution that provided banking and giro transfer services, originally established and run through the national postal system.
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C.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global financial services corporation best known for its widely used credit and debit card payment network.
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D.
Visa
Visa is a global financial services corporation best known for operating one of the world’s largest electronic payment networks for credit, debit, and prepaid cards.
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E.
Creditex
Creditex is a financial services firm specializing in electronic trading and brokerage of credit derivatives and related fixed-income products.
- 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: Worldline Target entity description: Worldline is a French multinational company specializing in payment and transactional services, recognized as a major European player in digital payments.
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A.
Chase Paymentech
Chase Paymentech is a payment processing and merchant services provider specializing in credit card and electronic transaction solutions for businesses.
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B.
Girobank
Girobank was a British state-owned financial institution that provided banking and giro transfer services, originally established and run through the national postal system.
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C.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global financial services corporation best known for its widely used credit and debit card payment network.
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D.
Visa
Visa is a global financial services corporation best known for operating one of the world’s largest electronic payment networks for credit, debit, and prepaid cards.
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E.
Creditex
Creditex is a financial services firm specializing in electronic trading and brokerage of credit derivatives and related fixed-income products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational company
ⓘ
payment services provider ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| acquired | Ingenico ⓘ |
| acquisitionOfIngenicoAnnounced | 2020 ⓘ |
| acquisitionOfIngenicoCompleted | 2020 ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| foundedAsIndependentCompany | 2014 ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
B2B
ⓘ
B2B2C ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
cashless payments
ⓘ
contactless payments ⓘ e-commerce payments ⓘ mobile payments ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Ingenico ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bezons, France ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
information technology services ⓘ payments ⓘ |
| isMajorPlayerIn | European payments market ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| legalForm | Société Anonyme ⓘ |
| memberOfIndex |
CAC 40
ⓘ
surface form:
CAC 40 ESG
|
| offersService |
digital banking services
ⓘ
fraud risk management ⓘ issuing processing ⓘ merchant acquiring ⓘ omnichannel payment solutions ⓘ online payment solutions ⓘ payment processing ⓘ point-of-sale solutions ⓘ terminal solutions ⓘ |
| originatedAsBusinessUnitOf |
Capgemini
ⓘ
surface form:
Atos
|
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ |
| servesClientType |
banks
ⓘ
financial institutions ⓘ merchants ⓘ public sector organizations ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
digital payments
ⓘ
payment services ⓘ transactional services ⓘ |
| spunOffFrom |
Capgemini
ⓘ
surface form:
Atos
|
| stockExchange |
Euronext
ⓘ
surface form:
Euronext Paris
|
| tickerSymbol | WLN ⓘ |
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: Worldline Description of subject: Worldline is a French multinational company specializing in payment and transactional services, recognized as a major European player in digital payments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.