Broadcast.com
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Broadcast.com was an early internet radio and streaming media company that became famous during the dot-com boom and was acquired by Yahoo! in 1999.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broadcast.com canonical | 1 |
| broadcast.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3662585 — 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: Broadcast.com Context triple: [Mark Cuban, coFounderOf, Broadcast.com]
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A.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio streaming and music sharing platform that allows artists to upload, promote, and distribute their tracks directly to listeners worldwide.
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B.
Clubhouse
Clubhouse is a 2004 American drama film in which John Ortiz appears, centered on a troubled teen who finds an unlikely sense of belonging in a minor league baseball team’s clubhouse.
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C.
Chatterbug
Chatterbug is an online language-learning platform that offers live tutoring and interactive exercises to help users practice and improve foreign language skills.
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D.
Social Statics
Social Statics is a foundational 1851 philosophical work by Herbert Spencer that outlines his views on individual liberty, natural rights, and the evolution of society.
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E.
Buzzr
Buzzr is an American digital multicast television network specializing in classic game shows from the mid-20th century onward.
- 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: Broadcast.com Target entity description: Broadcast.com was an early internet radio and streaming media company that became famous during the dot-com boom and was acquired by Yahoo! in 1999.
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A.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio streaming and music sharing platform that allows artists to upload, promote, and distribute their tracks directly to listeners worldwide.
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B.
Clubhouse
Clubhouse is a 2004 American drama film in which John Ortiz appears, centered on a troubled teen who finds an unlikely sense of belonging in a minor league baseball team’s clubhouse.
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C.
Chatterbug
Chatterbug is an online language-learning platform that offers live tutoring and interactive exercises to help users practice and improve foreign language skills.
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D.
Social Statics
Social Statics is a foundational 1851 philosophical work by Herbert Spencer that outlines his views on individual liberty, natural rights, and the evolution of society.
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E.
Buzzr
Buzzr is an American digital multicast television network specializing in classic game shows from the mid-20th century onward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet company
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internet radio company ⓘ internet radio company ⓘ streaming media company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Yahoo
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surface form:
Yahoo!
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| acquisitionDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 5700000000 USD ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| businessModel |
advertising-supported streaming
ⓘ
enterprise webcasting services ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| fate | integrated into Yahoo! services ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Mark Cuban
ⓘ
Todd Wagner ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
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internet radio ⓘ streaming media ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | dot-com boom ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early large-scale internet audio streaming
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popularizing internet radio ⓘ |
| notableFounderRole |
Mark Cuban
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surface form:
Mark Cuban became a billionaire from the sale to Yahoo!
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| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition |
Yahoo
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surface form:
Yahoo!
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| predecessor | AudioNet ⓘ |
| serviceType |
audio streaming
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live event webcasting ⓘ video streaming ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| targetMarket | global ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | BCST ⓘ |
| website |
Broadcast.com
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
broadcast.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: Broadcast.com Description of subject: Broadcast.com was an early internet radio and streaming media company that became famous during the dot-com boom and was acquired by Yahoo! in 1999.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
broadcast.com