Qwest Communications International

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Qwest Communications International was a major U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided local, long-distance, and broadband services before being absorbed into what is now Lumen Technologies.

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All labels observed (6)

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf public company
telecommunications company
acquiredBy CenturyLink
brand Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qwest
brandUsedBy Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qwest Corporation
competedWith AT&T
Sprint Corporation
surface form: Sprint Nextel

Verizon
surface form: Verizon Communications
country United States of America
surface form: United States
foundedBy Philip Anschutz
hasSubsidiary Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qwest Communications Company, LLC

Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qwest Corporation
headquartersLocation Denver, Colorado
United States of America
surface form: United States
industry telecommunications
laterPartOf Lumen Technologies
legalForm corporation
mergedInto CenturyLink
networkType fiber-optic backbone network
offeredTechnology DSL broadband
IP-based services
operatedInArea 14-state local service region in the western United States
United States of America
surface form: United States
owns Qwest fiber-optic network
parentCompanyAfterAcquisition CenturyLink
product AT&T U-verse
surface form: Qwest Choice TV

Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qwest DSL
providedTo business customers
residential customers
wholesale carriers
regulatoryBody Federal Communications Commission
servedRegion Midwestern United States
western United States
surface form: Western United States
service broadband Internet access
business telecommunications services
data services
local telephone service
long-distance telephone service
wireless services
status defunct
stockExchange New York Stock Exchange
successor CenturyLink
Lumen Technologies
telecomCategory Internet service provider
incumbent local exchange carrier
long-distance carrier
tickerSymbol Q

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: Qwest Communications International
Description of subject: Qwest Communications International was a major U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided local, long-distance, and broadband services before being absorbed into what is now Lumen Technologies.

Referenced by (13)

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

Lumen Technologies acquired Qwest Communications International
Regional Bell Operating Companies successorEntitiesInclude Qwest Communications International
US West successor Qwest Communications International
US West acquiredBy Qwest Communications International
US West ownedBrand Qwest Communications International
this entity surface form: US West Communications
CenturyLink hasSubsidiary Qwest Communications International
this entity surface form: Qwest Corporation
CenturyLink acquired Qwest Communications International
Qwest Communications International hasSubsidiary Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qwest Corporation
Qwest Communications International hasSubsidiary Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qwest Communications Company, LLC
Qwest Communications International product Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qwest DSL
Qwest Communications International brand Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qwest
Qwest Communications International brandUsedBy Qwest Communications International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qwest Corporation
Baby Bells someMembersLaterMergedInto Qwest Communications International