iStockphoto
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iStockphoto is an online microstock photography marketplace offering royalty-free images, illustrations, video, and audio clips contributed by a global community of creators.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| iStockphoto canonical | 2 |
| iStock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3429599 — 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: iStockphoto Context triple: [Getty Images, acquired, iStockphoto]
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A.
Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock is Adobe’s royalty-free stock content service offering millions of photos, illustrations, vectors, videos, and other creative assets for use in design and media projects.
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B.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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C.
Getty Images
Getty Images is a leading global provider of stock photography, editorial imagery, video, and other visual content for media, advertising, and corporate clients.
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D.
Getty
Getty is a prominent American surname most famously associated with oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and the wealthy Getty family.
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E.
The Image Bank
The Image Bank was a major stock photography agency known for its extensive collection of professional images, later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media archive.
- 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: iStockphoto Target entity description: iStockphoto is an online microstock photography marketplace offering royalty-free images, illustrations, video, and audio clips contributed by a global community of creators.
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A.
Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock is Adobe’s royalty-free stock content service offering millions of photos, illustrations, vectors, videos, and other creative assets for use in design and media projects.
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B.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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C.
Getty Images
Getty Images is a leading global provider of stock photography, editorial imagery, video, and other visual content for media, advertising, and corporate clients.
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D.
Getty
Getty is a prominent American surname most famously associated with oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and the wealthy Getty family.
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E.
The Image Bank
The Image Bank was a major stock photography agency known for its extensive collection of professional images, later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media archive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microstock photography agency
ⓘ
online marketplace ⓘ stock photography website ⓘ subsidiary ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Getty Images ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2006 ⓘ |
| allowsUserRole |
buyer
ⓘ
contributor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
iStockphoto
ⓘ
surface form:
iStock
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| businessModel |
microstock
ⓘ
royalty-free licensing ⓘ |
| contributorCompensationModel | royalty payments ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| distributionMethod | digital download ⓘ |
| focus | affordable stock media ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 2000 ⓘ |
| founder | Bruce Livingstone ⓘ |
| hasContributorCommunity | global ⓘ |
| hasGlobalReach | true ⓘ |
| hasPaymentModel |
credit-based purchases
ⓘ
subscription plans ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Calgary
ⓘ
surface form:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
|
| industry |
digital media
ⓘ
stock photography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licensingType | royalty-free ⓘ |
| name | iStockphoto self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering the microstock photography model ⓘ |
| offersContentCategory |
audio
ⓘ
illustrations ⓘ photos ⓘ vectors ⓘ video ⓘ |
| operatesAs | online platform ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Getty Images ⓘ |
| platformType | web-based service ⓘ |
| productType |
royalty-free audio clips
ⓘ
royalty-free illustrations ⓘ royalty-free images ⓘ royalty-free vector graphics ⓘ royalty-free video clips ⓘ |
| serviceType | online licensing ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
content creators
ⓘ
designers ⓘ marketers ⓘ publishers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.istockphoto.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: iStockphoto Description of subject: iStockphoto is an online microstock photography marketplace offering royalty-free images, illustrations, video, and audio clips contributed by a global community of creators.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
iStock