ILOVEYOU worm
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The ILOVEYOU worm was a notorious early-2000s email-borne computer worm that rapidly spread worldwide, causing massive damage by overwriting files and exploiting users’ trust with a deceptive love-letter subject line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ILOVEYOU worm canonical | 2 |
| ILOVEYOU | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1612122 — 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: ILOVEYOU worm Context triple: [VBScript, notableMalware, ILOVEYOU worm]
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A.
Confinity
Confinity was a software company co-founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and others that developed digital payment technology and later merged with X.com to form PayPal.
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B.
Trojan cycle
The Trojan cycle is a collection of ancient Greek epic poems that narrate the full saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath beyond what is told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
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C.
Wikkit Gate
Wikkit Gate is a powerful, universe-encompassing force field and key plot device in Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything," central to a scheme to destroy the universe.
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D.
Revenge of the Hackers
Revenge of the Hackers is an essay by open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond that chronicles the rise of the open-source movement and the cultural shift it brought to the software industry.
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E.
Operation Bluecoat
Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive launched in late July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy to seize key terrain south of Caumont and support the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
- 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: ILOVEYOU worm Target entity description: The ILOVEYOU worm was a notorious early-2000s email-borne computer worm that rapidly spread worldwide, causing massive damage by overwriting files and exploiting users’ trust with a deceptive love-letter subject line.
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A.
Confinity
Confinity was a software company co-founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and others that developed digital payment technology and later merged with X.com to form PayPal.
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B.
Trojan cycle
The Trojan cycle is a collection of ancient Greek epic poems that narrate the full saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath beyond what is told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
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C.
Wikkit Gate
Wikkit Gate is a powerful, universe-encompassing force field and key plot device in Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything," central to a scheme to destroy the universe.
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D.
Revenge of the Hackers
Revenge of the Hackers is an essay by open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond that chronicles the rise of the open-source movement and the cultural shift it brought to the software industry.
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E.
Operation Bluecoat
Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive launched in late July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy to seize key terrain south of Caumont and support the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer worm
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email-borne worm ⓘ malware ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Love Bug
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Love Letter worm ⓘ LoveLetter ⓘ |
| authorOrigin | Philippines ⓘ |
| category |
email worm
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social engineering attack ⓘ |
| effect |
caused email system outages
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caused network congestion ⓘ modified system files ⓘ overwrote files ⓘ spread to contacts via email ⓘ stole passwords ⓘ |
| emailAttachmentName | LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs ⓘ |
| emailSubjectLine |
ILOVEYOU worm
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ILOVEYOU
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| era | early 2000s ⓘ |
| estimatedDamageCost | billions of US dollars ⓘ |
| executionRequirement | user opening the attachment ⓘ |
| fileExtensionUsed | .vbs ⓘ |
| fileTypeMasquerade | pretended to be a text file ⓘ |
| firstDetectedIn | Philippines ⓘ |
| firstDetectedOn | 2000-05-04 ⓘ |
| geographicSpread | worldwide ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploiting Microsoft Outlook address books
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large economic impact ⓘ rapid global spread ⓘ use of social engineering ⓘ |
| payload |
installing password-stealing component
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overwriting image files ⓘ overwriting music files ⓘ overwriting script files ⓘ |
| propagationMethod |
email
ⓘ
file sharing ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Anna Kournikova worm
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Melissa virus ⓘ |
| securityImpact |
led to improved email filtering
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prompted changes in email attachment policies ⓘ raised awareness of social engineering threats ⓘ |
| socialEngineeringTechnique |
deceptive subject line
ⓘ
fake love letter ⓘ |
| targetedSoftware |
Outlook
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Outlook
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| targetPlatform |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| usedVulnerability | default Windows setting hiding known file extensions ⓘ |
| writtenIn | VBScript ⓘ |
| yearOfMajorOutbreak | 2000 ⓘ |
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: ILOVEYOU worm Description of subject: The ILOVEYOU worm was a notorious early-2000s email-borne computer worm that rapidly spread worldwide, causing massive damage by overwriting files and exploiting users’ trust with a deceptive love-letter subject line.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ILOVEYOU