MySpace

E20372

MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
MySpace canonical 21
Myspace 3
MySpace Music service 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf online community
social networking service
technology company
website
acquisitionDate 2005-07-18
2011-06-29
acquisitionPrice 580000000 USD
commercial true
competitor Facebook
Friendster
Hi5
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
declineReason competition from Facebook
usability and spam issues
founder Aber Whitcomb
Brad Greenspan
Chris DeWolfe
Josh Berman
Tom Anderson
foundingDate 2003-08-01
genre music social network
social media
social networking
headquartersLocation Beverly Hills, California, United States
surface form: Beverly Hills, California

Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California
inception 2003
industry internet
social media
locationCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
logoImage MySpace self-linksurface differs
surface form: Myspace logo.svg
mainSubject entertainment
music
notableFeature HTML and CSS customization by users
MySpace self-linksurface differs
surface form: MySpace Music service

Top 8 friends list feature
ability to embed music players on profiles
band and artist profile pages
highly customizable user profile pages
operatingLanguage English
ownedBy News Corporation
owner Justin Timberlake
News Corporation
Specific Media Group
parentCompany Fox Interactive Media
peakUserCount over 100 million users
peakUserCountTime around 2008
ranking most visited social networking site in the mid-2000s
rebrandedAs MySpace self-linksurface differs
surface form: Myspace (stylized without capital S)
registration required for most features
websiteURL https://myspace.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: MySpace
Description of subject: MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Web 2.0 hasExample MySpace
MySpace rebrandedAs MySpace self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Myspace (stylized without capital S)
MySpace notableFeature MySpace self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: MySpace Music service
MySpace logoImage MySpace self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Myspace logo.svg
Tom Anderson notableWork MySpace
Tom Anderson coFounded MySpace
Tom Anderson employer MySpace
Friendster influenced MySpace
Fox Interactive Media managed MySpace
this entity surface form: Myspace
Fox Interactive Media owned MySpace
this entity surface form: Myspace
Fox Interactive Media keyAsset MySpace
this entity surface form: Myspace
Chris DeWolfe coFounded MySpace
Chris DeWolfe employer MySpace
Hi5 competitor MySpace
Josh Berman notableWork MySpace
Josh Berman coFounded MySpace
Brad Greenspan notableWork MySpace
Brad Greenspan coFounded MySpace
Slide platform MySpace
Xanga competesWith MySpace
Aber Whitcomb knownFor MySpace
Aber Whitcomb employer MySpace
Aber Whitcomb coFounded MySpace
Dane Cook usedPlatform MySpace