Delicious
E19880
Delicious was a pioneering social bookmarking web service that allowed users to save, tag, and share links online, exemplifying early Web 2.0 collaboration and user-generated content.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delicious canonical | 7 |
| delicious.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161275 — 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: Delicious Context triple: [Web 2.0, hasExample, Delicious]
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A.
Nice
Nice is a prominent Mediterranean coastal city on the French Riviera, known for its mild climate, beaches, and vibrant cultural life.
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B.
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat is Chrissy Teigen’s bestselling debut cookbook, featuring indulgent, comfort-driven recipes with a playful, personal tone.
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C.
Allrecipes
Allrecipes is a popular online cooking and recipe platform where users share, rate, and discover a wide variety of dishes and meal ideas.
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D.
Cook
Cook is a surname shared by various notable individuals, including members of singer-songwriter Alicia Keys' family.
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E.
Khinkali
Khinkali is a popular Georgian dumpling typically filled with spiced meat and broth, known for its distinctive twisted top and eaten by hand.
- 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: Delicious Target entity description: Delicious was a pioneering social bookmarking web service that allowed users to save, tag, and share links online, exemplifying early Web 2.0 collaboration and user-generated content.
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A.
Nice
Nice is a prominent Mediterranean coastal city on the French Riviera, known for its mild climate, beaches, and vibrant cultural life.
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B.
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat is Chrissy Teigen’s bestselling debut cookbook, featuring indulgent, comfort-driven recipes with a playful, personal tone.
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C.
Allrecipes
Allrecipes is a popular online cooking and recipe platform where users share, rate, and discover a wide variety of dishes and meal ideas.
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D.
Cook
Cook is a surname shared by various notable individuals, including members of singer-songwriter Alicia Keys' family.
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E.
Khinkali
Khinkali is a popular Georgian dumpling typically filled with spiced meat and broth, known for its distinctive twisted top and eaten by hand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web 2.0 application
ⓘ
social bookmarking service ⓘ web service ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization)
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| acquisitionAmount | approximately 15 million US dollars ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | December 2005 ⓘ |
| bookmarkCount | over 180 million bookmarks at its peak ⓘ |
| businessModel |
advertising-supported
ⓘ
free service ⓘ |
| discontinuationDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| feature |
API for developers
ⓘ
RSS feeds for bookmarks ⓘ bookmark bundles ⓘ folksonomy tagging system ⓘ public and private bookmarks ⓘ social discovery of links ⓘ tag-based navigation ⓘ |
| founder | Joshua Schachter ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 2003 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Diigo
ⓘ
del.icio.us ⓘ
surface form:
Pinboard
social tagging practices on the web ⓘ |
| logoText | del.icio.us ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
link sharing
ⓘ
social bookmarking ⓘ tagging of web pages ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of Web 2.0
ⓘ
popularizing social bookmarking ⓘ use of user-generated tags ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| originalName | del.icio.us ⓘ |
| owner |
AVOS Systems
ⓘ
Science Inc. ⓘ Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization) ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| programmingLanguage |
PHP
ⓘ
Perl ⓘ Python ⓘ |
| saleDate |
2014
ⓘ
April 2011 ⓘ |
| serviceStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| soldBy |
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization)
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| soldTo |
AVOS Systems
ⓘ
Science Inc. ⓘ |
| userCount | over 5 million users at its peak ⓘ |
| websiteURL |
https://del.icio.us
ⓘ
https://delicious.com ⓘ |
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: Delicious Description of subject: Delicious was a pioneering social bookmarking web service that allowed users to save, tag, and share links online, exemplifying early Web 2.0 collaboration and user-generated content.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
delicious.com