Zip2
E3340
Zip2 was an early online city guide and business directory software company from the late 1990s that provided web-based publishing tools for newspapers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zip2 canonical | 5 |
| uses ZIP codes associated with Naples, Florida | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T38623 — 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.
Target entity: Zip2 Context triple: [Elon Musk, coFounded, Zip2]
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Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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Metro
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ARC
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HUP
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Ventra
Ventra is the contactless fare payment system used across Chicago’s public transit network, including buses and trains.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Zip2 Target entity description: Zip2 was an early online city guide and business directory software company from the late 1990s that provided web-based publishing tools for newspapers.
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A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
DELTA
DELTA is the radio callsign used by pilots and air traffic control to identify and communicate with Delta Air Lines flights.
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D.
Metro
Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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E.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business directory service
ⓘ
online city guide ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Compaq ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmount | 307000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | cash acquisition ⓘ |
| businessFocus |
local business discovery
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online local advertising infrastructure ⓘ |
| businessModel | B2B software and services ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developedFor | newspaper websites ⓘ |
| employed |
Elon Musk
ⓘ
Greg Kouri ⓘ Kimbal Musk ⓘ |
| era | dot-com era ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Elon Musk
ⓘ
Greg Kouri ⓘ Kimbal Musk ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Palo Alto, California
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surface form:
Palo Alto, California, United States
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| headquartersLocation |
Palo Alto, California
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surface form:
Palo Alto, California, United States
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| industry |
internet
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software ⓘ |
| integratedInto | AltaVista ⓘ |
| notableClient |
Chicago Tribune
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The New York Times ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition | Compaq ⓘ |
| productType |
local search directory
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web publishing platform ⓘ |
| provided |
business directory software
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mapping and directions for local businesses ⓘ online city guide platform ⓘ web-based publishing tools for newspapers ⓘ |
| reasonForNotability | early venture of Elon Musk ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
international newspapers online ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | AltaVista business directory services ⓘ |
| targetedUser |
local businesses
ⓘ
newspapers ⓘ |
| usedTechnology |
database-driven business listings
ⓘ
web-based mapping ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Zip2 Description of subject: Zip2 was an early online city guide and business directory software company from the late 1990s that provided web-based publishing tools for newspapers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.