NASDAQ:VRSN
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NASDAQ:VRSN is the stock ticker for VeriSign, Inc., a U.S.-based company best known for providing domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NASDAQ:VRSN canonical | 3 |
| VRSN | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1712138 — 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: NASDAQ:VRSN Context triple: [VeriSign, tradedAs, NASDAQ:VRSN]
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A.
NASDAQ:CMCSA
NASDAQ:CMCSA is the stock ticker symbol for Comcast Corporation, a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate.
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B.
Worldcoin
Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency and digital identity project that aims to create a global financial network by uniquely verifying individuals, co-founded by Sam Altman.
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C.
TikTok
TikTok is a popular short-form video-sharing platform known for its algorithm-driven content feed, viral trends, and user-generated music and dance videos.
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D.
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service and social media platform known for its looping six-second clips and significant cultural impact in the early 2010s.
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E.
ByteDance
ByteDance is a Chinese technology company best known as the parent company of the short-video platform TikTok and news aggregator Toutiao.
- 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: NASDAQ:VRSN Target entity description: NASDAQ:VRSN is the stock ticker for VeriSign, Inc., a U.S.-based company best known for providing domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains.
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A.
NASDAQ:CMCSA
NASDAQ:CMCSA is the stock ticker symbol for Comcast Corporation, a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate.
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B.
Worldcoin
Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency and digital identity project that aims to create a global financial network by uniquely verifying individuals, co-founded by Sam Altman.
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C.
TikTok
TikTok is a popular short-form video-sharing platform known for its algorithm-driven content feed, viral trends, and user-generated music and dance videos.
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D.
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service and social media platform known for its looping six-second clips and significant cultural impact in the early 2010s.
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E.
ByteDance
ByteDance is a Chinese technology company best known as the parent company of the short-video platform TikTok and news aggregator Toutiao.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet infrastructure company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
VeriSign
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surface form:
Verisign
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| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currencyOfStock |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
USD
|
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Dulles, Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Dulles, Virginia, United States
Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
D. James Bidzos
ⓘ
James Bidzos ⓘ RSA Security Inc. spin-off ⓘ |
| hasCEO | James Bidzos ⓘ |
| hasContractWith | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ⓘ |
| hasCUSIP | 92343E102 ⓘ |
| hasFormerTicker | NASDAQ:VRSN (unchanged since listing) ⓘ |
| hasHomepage | https://www.verisign.com ⓘ |
| hasISIN | US92343E1029 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
operator of .com registry
ⓘ
operator of .net registry ⓘ |
| hasServiceArea | global ⓘ |
| hasStockExchangeCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation |
Reston
ⓘ
surface form:
Reston, Virginia, United States
|
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry |
domain name registry
ⓘ
information technology services ⓘ internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| listedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| managesTopLevelDomain |
.cc
ⓘ
.com ⓘ .name ⓘ .net ⓘ .tv ⓘ |
| notableFor |
operating the authoritative registry for .com
ⓘ
operating the authoritative registry for .net ⓘ |
| providesService |
DNS infrastructure services
ⓘ
domain name registry services ⓘ root zone management services ⓘ security services for internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| regulatesUnder |
Securities and Exchange Commission
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
|
| sector | information technology ⓘ |
| securityType | common stock ⓘ |
| stockTicker | NASDAQ:VRSN self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
NASDAQ:VRSN
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
VRSN
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| tradedAs | NASDAQ:VRSN self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: NASDAQ:VRSN Description of subject: NASDAQ:VRSN is the stock ticker for VeriSign, Inc., a U.S.-based company best known for providing domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
VeriSign, Inc.
subject surface form:
VeriSign, Inc.
this entity surface form:
VRSN
subject surface form:
VeriSign, Inc.