Square, Inc.
E140618
Square, Inc. is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale systems that enable businesses to accept electronic payments easily.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Square, Inc. canonical | 4 |
| Square Register | 1 |
| Square, Inc. (now Block, Inc.) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1232236 — 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: Square, Inc. Context triple: [Jack Dorsey, coFounded, Square, Inc.]
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A.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is an American technology and social media company best known for developing the multimedia messaging app Snapchat and related camera and augmented reality products.
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B.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc. is a major American technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media and virtual reality products.
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C.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
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D.
DoubleClick Inc.
DoubleClick Inc. was a pioneering online advertising company best known for its ad-serving technology and data-driven targeting, later acquired by Google to strengthen its digital advertising platform.
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E.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
- 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: Square, Inc. Target entity description: Square, Inc. is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale systems that enable businesses to accept electronic payments easily.
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A.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is an American technology and social media company best known for developing the multimedia messaging app Snapchat and related camera and augmented reality products.
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B.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc. is a major American technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media and virtual reality products.
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C.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
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D.
DoubleClick Inc.
DoubleClick Inc. was a pioneering online advertising company best known for its ad-serving technology and data-driven targeting, later acquired by Google to strengthen its digital advertising platform.
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E.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial technology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Square ⓘ |
| CEO | Jack Dorsey ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| enables |
card-not-present payments
ⓘ
card-present payments ⓘ |
| focusesOn | simplifying electronic payments for businesses ⓘ |
| formerName | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jim McKelvey ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cloud-based point-of-sale
ⓘ
flat-rate transaction pricing ⓘ integrated hardware and software ⓘ sales reporting and analytics ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
ⓘ
payments ⓘ point-of-sale systems ⓘ |
| offers |
business analytics tools
ⓘ
merchant services ⓘ mobile payment services ⓘ point-of-sale hardware ⓘ point-of-sale software ⓘ small business financing ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| product |
Cash App
ⓘ
Square Capital ⓘ Square Invoices ⓘ Square Online ⓘ Square Payroll ⓘ Square Point of Sale app ⓘ Square Reader ⓘ Square, Inc. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Square Register
Square Stand ⓘ Square Terminal ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| supportsPaymentMethod |
EMV chip cards
ⓘ
contactless payments ⓘ credit cards ⓘ debit cards ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
restaurants
ⓘ
retail merchants ⓘ small businesses ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | SQ ⓘ |
| wentPublicOn | 2015-11-19 ⓘ |
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: Square, Inc. Description of subject: Square, Inc. is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale systems that enable businesses to accept electronic payments easily.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Square Register
this entity surface form:
Square, Inc. (now Block, Inc.)