@Home Network
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@Home Network was a pioneering late-1990s broadband internet service provider that helped popularize high-speed cable internet access before merging into Excite@Home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| @Home Network canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425562 — 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: @Home Network Context triple: [Excite, acquiredBy, @Home Network]
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A.
At Home Group
At Home Group is a U.S.-based big-box home décor retail chain known for offering a wide assortment of furniture, decorations, and household goods at value prices.
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B.
Ahome
Ahome is a coastal municipality in the north of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, known for its agricultural production and the city of Los Mochis.
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C.
Social House
Social House is an American pop and hip-hop production and songwriting duo known for their work with major artists like Ariana Grande as well as their own releases.
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D.
Emerald Network
The Emerald Network is a pan-European ecological network of protected areas aimed at conserving habitats and species of special importance under the Bern Convention.
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E.
Group Home
Group Home is a New York City hip hop duo known for their gritty 1990s boom-bap sound and close association with the Gang Starr Foundation.
- 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: @Home Network Target entity description: @Home Network was a pioneering late-1990s broadband internet service provider that helped popularize high-speed cable internet access before merging into Excite@Home.
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A.
At Home Group
At Home Group is a U.S.-based big-box home décor retail chain known for offering a wide assortment of furniture, decorations, and household goods at value prices.
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B.
Ahome
Ahome is a coastal municipality in the north of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, known for its agricultural production and the city of Los Mochis.
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C.
Social House
Social House is an American pop and hip-hop production and songwriting duo known for their work with major artists like Ariana Grande as well as their own releases.
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D.
Emerald Network
The Emerald Network is a pan-European ecological network of protected areas aimed at conserving habitats and species of special importance under the Bern Convention.
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E.
Group Home
Group Home is a New York City hip hop duo known for their gritty 1990s boom-bap sound and close association with the Gang Starr Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadband internet service provider
ⓘ
telecommunications company ⓘ |
| acquired | Excite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brandName | @Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | wholesale access through cable operators ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | early 2000s ⓘ |
| competedWith |
DSL providers
ⓘ
dial-up ISPs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| declineReason |
dot-com crash
ⓘ
financial difficulties ⓘ |
| founded | 1995 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
AT&T
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Comcast NERFINISHED ⓘ Cox Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers NERFINISHED ⓘ TCI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Redwood City, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
broadband
ⓘ
cable internet ⓘ internet service ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of the first major U.S. broadband ISPs ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Excite@Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergerDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| mergerPartner | Excite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early large-scale deployment of cable internet access
ⓘ
popularizing consumer broadband internet in the late 1990s ⓘ |
| offered |
email services
ⓘ
portal content via Excite ⓘ web hosting for subscribers ⓘ |
| operatedIn | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partneredWith | local cable television companies ⓘ |
| peakPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| providedService |
cable modem internet access
ⓘ
high-speed residential internet access ⓘ |
| serviceMedium | cable television infrastructure ⓘ |
| serviceType | always-on internet access ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Excite@Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
residential customers
ⓘ
small businesses ⓘ |
| usedTechnology |
cable modem
ⓘ
hybrid fiber-coaxial network ⓘ |
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: @Home Network Description of subject: @Home Network was a pioneering late-1990s broadband internet service provider that helped popularize high-speed cable internet access before merging into Excite@Home.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.