Yahoo
E366609
Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yahoo! | 30 |
| Yahoo canonical | 10 |
| Yahoo Inc. | 6 |
| Yahoo! Inc. | 2 |
| YHOO | 1 |
| Yahoo ID | 1 |
| Yahoo Inc. (original independent company) | 1 |
| Yahoo Tech | 1 |
| Yahoo! (past) | 1 |
| Yahoo_Advertising | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3167955 — 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: Yahoo Context triple: [Yahoo News, operatedBy, Yahoo]
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A.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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C.
Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
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D.
Yahoo homepage
The Yahoo homepage is a popular web portal that aggregates news, email access, search, finance, sports, and other personalized content in a single starting point for users.
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E.
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Mail is a free web-based email service known for its large storage capacity, integrated productivity features, and long-standing presence as one of the earliest major email providers on the internet.
- 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: Yahoo Target entity description: Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
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A.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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C.
Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
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D.
Yahoo homepage
The Yahoo homepage is a popular web portal that aggregates news, email access, search, finance, sports, and other personalized content in a single starting point for users.
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E.
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Mail is a free web-based email service known for its large storage capacity, integrated productivity features, and long-standing presence as one of the earliest major email providers on the internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ technology company ⓘ web services company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Verizon
ⓘ
surface form:
Verizon Communications
|
| acquisitionDate | 2017-06-13 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPrice | 4800000000 USD ⓘ |
| coFounder |
David Filo
ⓘ
Jerry Yang ⓘ |
| competitor |
Google
ⓘ
Bing ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Bing
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerName |
Yahoo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo! Inc.
|
| formerParentCompany |
Verizon
ⓘ
surface form:
Verizon Communications
|
| founders |
David Filo
ⓘ
Jerry Yang ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1994-01-01 ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | Do you Yahoo!? ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ |
| inceptionPlace | Stanford University ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ online media ⓘ search engine ⓘ web portal ⓘ |
| languageAvailable |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| logoImage | Yahoo logo ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
integrated news and media content
ⓘ
personalized homepage ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Apollo Global Management ⓘ |
| product |
Yahoo! Answers
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Fantasy Sports ⓘ Yahoo Finance ⓘ Yahoo Groups ⓘ Yahoo Mail ⓘ Yahoo! Messenger ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo News ⓘ Yahoo! Search ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo Search
Yahoo Sports ⓘ Yahoo Weather ⓘ |
| serviceType |
email service
ⓘ
online finance information ⓘ online news ⓘ online sports information ⓘ search engine ⓘ web portal ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
Yahoo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
YHOO
|
| website | https://www.yahoo.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: Yahoo Description of subject: Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yahoo!
this entity surface form:
YHOO
this entity surface form:
Yahoo! Inc.
this entity surface form:
Yahoo!