Postmates
E31510
Postmates is an on-demand delivery service platform that connects users with local couriers to deliver food, groceries, and other goods from nearby merchants.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T241704 — 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: Postmates Context triple: [Uber, notableSubsidiary, Postmates]
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A.
Lyft
Lyft is a major American ride-hailing and transportation company that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile app platform.
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B.
Uber
Uber is a global ride-hailing and technology company that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile app and has expanded into food delivery and freight services.
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C.
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is a global American restaurant chain known for its pizza, pasta, and other Italian-American dishes, operating thousands of locations worldwide.
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D.
IND Subway
IND Subway is the city-owned Independent Subway System in New York City, built in the early 20th century to compete with private transit operators and now forming a core part of the modern NYC Subway.
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E.
FedEx
FedEx is a global courier delivery services company known for its overnight shipping and pioneering real-time package tracking.
- 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: Postmates Target entity description: Postmates is an on-demand delivery service platform that connects users with local couriers to deliver food, groceries, and other goods from nearby merchants.
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A.
Lyft
Lyft is a major American ride-hailing and transportation company that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile app platform.
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B.
Uber
Uber is a global ride-hailing and technology company that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile app and has expanded into food delivery and freight services.
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C.
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is a global American restaurant chain known for its pizza, pasta, and other Italian-American dishes, operating thousands of locations worldwide.
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D.
IND Subway
IND Subway is the city-owned Independent Subway System in New York City, built in the early 20th century to compete with private transit operators and now forming a core part of the modern NYC Subway.
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E.
FedEx
FedEx is a global courier delivery services company known for its overnight shipping and pioneering real-time package tracking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
logistics company
ⓘ
on-demand delivery service ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Uber
ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies Inc.
|
| acquisitionDate | 2020 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 2650000000 USD ⓘ |
| brandOf |
Uber
ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies Inc.
|
| businessModel |
gig economy platform
ⓘ
two-sided marketplace ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
local couriers
ⓘ
local merchants ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy |
Bastian Lehmann
ⓘ
Sam Street ⓘ Sean Plaice ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
DoorDash
ⓘ
Grubhub ⓘ Postmates self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Instacart
Uber Eats ⓘ |
| hasService |
alcohol delivery
ⓘ
food delivery ⓘ grocery delivery ⓘ retail goods delivery ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
|
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| industry |
e-commerce
ⓘ
food delivery ⓘ on-demand logistics ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| offersFeature |
on-demand delivery
ⓘ
real-time order tracking ⓘ scheduled delivery ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| parentOrganization |
Uber
ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies Inc.
|
| partOf | Uber Eats ecosystem ⓘ |
| platformType |
mobile application
ⓘ
website ⓘ |
| revenueModel |
delivery fees
ⓘ
merchant commissions ⓘ service fees ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
suburban areas
ⓘ
urban areas ⓘ |
| supportsDevice |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| targetUser |
consumers
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ retailers ⓘ |
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: Postmates Description of subject: Postmates is an on-demand delivery service platform that connects users with local couriers to deliver food, groceries, and other goods from nearby merchants.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Instacart