Scour
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Scour was a late-1990s peer-to-peer file-sharing and multimedia search company co-founded by Travis Kalanick that became an early high-profile target of copyright infringement lawsuits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scour canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481992 — 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.
Target entity: Scour Context triple: [Travis Kalanick, employer, Scour]
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River Suck
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Blackwater
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Openwater
Openwater is a medical imaging and neurotechnology company developing high-resolution, low-cost brain and body imaging devices using novel optics and holography techniques.
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Sangschaw
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Deluge
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Scour Target entity description: Scour was a late-1990s peer-to-peer file-sharing and multimedia search company co-founded by Travis Kalanick that became an early high-profile target of copyright infringement lawsuits.
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A.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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B.
Blackwater
Blackwater is a small town in the Hart district of Hampshire, England, situated on the border with Surrey and forming part of the wider Blackwater Valley conurbation.
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C.
Openwater
Openwater is a medical imaging and neurotechnology company developing high-resolution, low-cost brain and body imaging devices using novel optics and holography techniques.
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D.
Sangschaw
Sangschaw is a notable early poetry collection by Scottish modernist poet Hugh MacDiarmid, written largely in Scots and central to the Scottish literary renaissance.
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E.
Deluge
The Deluge was a mid-17th-century series of devastating invasions and occupations, primarily by Sweden and Russia, that led to massive destruction and decline in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multimedia search company
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peer-to-peer file-sharing company ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Travis Kalanick ⓘ |
| businessModel | online service ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | Travis Kalanick ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| foundedBy | Travis Kalanick ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | dot-com era ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
multimedia indexing and search
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peer-to-peer file distribution ⓘ |
| industry |
Internet search
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file sharing ⓘ |
| legalIssue | copyright infringement lawsuits ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early high-profile copyright infringement lawsuits
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multimedia search engine ⓘ peer-to-peer file sharing service ⓘ |
| operatedIn | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| operatingPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| productType |
file-sharing software
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search engine ⓘ |
| serviceType |
multimedia search
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peer-to-peer network ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectOf | copyright litigation ⓘ |
| targetOf | lawsuits by entertainment industry groups ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Scour Description of subject: Scour was a late-1990s peer-to-peer file-sharing and multimedia search company co-founded by Travis Kalanick that became an early high-profile target of copyright infringement lawsuits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.