Wirecutter, Inc.
E165850
Wirecutter, Inc. is a product review and recommendation website known for its rigorously researched buying guides across a wide range of consumer goods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wirecutter, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1452779 — 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: Wirecutter, Inc. Context triple: [The New York Times Company, hasSubsidiary, Wirecutter, Inc.]
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A.
Fast Company
Fast Company is a leading American business media brand and magazine focused on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.
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B.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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C.
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. was an early technology company best known for pioneering commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems and reading machines for the blind.
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D.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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E.
John P. Jewett & Company
John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- 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: Wirecutter, Inc. Target entity description: Wirecutter, Inc. is a product review and recommendation website known for its rigorously researched buying guides across a wide range of consumer goods.
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A.
Fast Company
Fast Company is a leading American business media brand and magazine focused on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.
-
B.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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C.
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. was an early technology company best known for pioneering commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems and reading machines for the blind.
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D.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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E.
John P. Jewett & Company
John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
product review website ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | The New York Times Company ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| brandName | Wirecutter ⓘ |
| businessModel |
affiliate marketing
ⓘ
subscription bundles with The New York Times ⓘ |
| contentType |
buying guides
ⓘ
product reviews ⓘ recommendations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
health and fitness products ⓘ home goods ⓘ kitchen appliances ⓘ outdoor gear ⓘ personal technology ⓘ |
| formerWebsiteURL | https://thewirecutter.com/ ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Brian Lam ⓘ |
| founder | Brian Lam ⓘ |
| hasEditorialStandard |
disclosure of affiliate relationships
ⓘ
evidence‑based recommendations ⓘ hands‑on testing ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Baby & Kids
ⓘ
Deals ⓘ Electronics ⓘ Home & Garden ⓘ Kitchen & Dining ⓘ Outdoors ⓘ Sleep ⓘ Travel ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer advice
ⓘ
online media ⓘ product reviews ⓘ |
| knownFor |
in‑depth buying guides
ⓘ
long‑form reviews ⓘ rigorous product testing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| name | Wirecutter, Inc. self-link ⓘ |
| operatesAs | Wirecutter ⓘ |
| ownedBy | The New York Times Company ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | The New York Times Company ⓘ |
| publishingPlatform | web ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/ ⓘ |
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: Wirecutter, Inc. Description of subject: Wirecutter, Inc. is a product review and recommendation website known for its rigorously researched buying guides across a wide range of consumer goods.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.