Architext
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Architext was an early web search engine company that later became known as Excite, one of the prominent internet portals of the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Architext canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425550 — 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: Architext Context triple: [Excite, originalName, Architext]
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A.
The Belly of an Architect
The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 art-house drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, centered on an American architect in Rome whose obsession with a historical figure mirrors his own physical and psychological decline.
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B.
The Architect Sketch
The Architect Sketch is a famous Monty Python comedy sketch in which an increasingly unhinged architect presents a disastrously overengineered and lethal building design to a pair of bewildered clients.
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C.
In the Cause of Architecture
"In the Cause of Architecture" is a collection of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright articulating his principles of organic architecture and his critique of conventional architectural practice.
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D.
360 Architecture
360 Architecture was a Kansas City–based architectural firm known for designing major sports venues and large-scale entertainment facilities, including MetLife Stadium.
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E.
Von Material zu Architektur
Von Material zu Architektur is a seminal theoretical book by László Moholy-Nagy that explores the relationship between materials, technology, and modern architectural form within the Bauhaus context.
- 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: Architext Target entity description: Architext was an early web search engine company that later became known as Excite, one of the prominent internet portals of the 1990s.
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A.
The Belly of an Architect
The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 art-house drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, centered on an American architect in Rome whose obsession with a historical figure mirrors his own physical and psychological decline.
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B.
The Architect Sketch
The Architect Sketch is a famous Monty Python comedy sketch in which an increasingly unhinged architect presents a disastrously overengineered and lethal building design to a pair of bewildered clients.
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C.
In the Cause of Architecture
"In the Cause of Architecture" is a collection of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright articulating his principles of organic architecture and his critique of conventional architectural practice.
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D.
360 Architecture
360 Architecture was a Kansas City–based architectural firm known for designing major sports venues and large-scale entertainment facilities, including MetLife Stadium.
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E.
Von Material zu Architektur
Von Material zu Architektur is a seminal theoretical book by László Moholy-Nagy that explores the relationship between materials, technology, and modern architectural form within the Bauhaus context.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
ⓘ
technology startup ⓘ web search engine company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Excite, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Stanford area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed | Excite search engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | dot-com era ⓘ |
| focus |
full-text search technology
ⓘ
web indexing ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ben Lutch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Graham Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Kraus NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark VanHaren NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Reinfried NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan McIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online services ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Excite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing one of the early web search engines
ⓘ
evolving into a major internet portal brand ⓘ |
| operatedAs | Excite search service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originatedAt | Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType | search engine software ⓘ |
| status | acquired ⓘ |
| successor | Excite, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Architext Description of subject: Architext was an early web search engine company that later became known as Excite, one of the prominent internet portals of the 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.