Last.fm (via CBS Interactive)
E461326
Last.fm is an online music streaming and recommendation service known for its “scrobbling” feature that tracks users’ listening habits to suggest new music and generate personalized charts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Last.fm (via CBS Interactive) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4668408 — 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: Last.fm (via CBS Interactive) Context triple: [CBS Corporation, owned, Last.fm (via CBS Interactive)]
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A.
Spotify
Spotify is a popular digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that offers on-demand and curated audio content across multiple platforms.
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B.
Rdio
Rdio was an online music streaming service known for its sleek design and social features, founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis and launched in 2010.
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C.
TIDAL
TIDAL is a subscription-based music, podcast, and video streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-centric platform.
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D.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
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E.
Deezer
Deezer is a global music streaming service offering on-demand access to a large catalog of songs, playlists, and podcasts across multiple platforms.
- 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: Last.fm (via CBS Interactive) Target entity description: Last.fm is an online music streaming and recommendation service known for its “scrobbling” feature that tracks users’ listening habits to suggest new music and generate personalized charts.
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A.
Spotify
Spotify is a popular digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that offers on-demand and curated audio content across multiple platforms.
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B.
Rdio
Rdio was an online music streaming service known for its sleek design and social features, founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis and launched in 2010.
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C.
TIDAL
TIDAL is a subscription-based music, podcast, and video streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-centric platform.
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D.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
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E.
Deezer
Deezer is a global music streaming service offering on-demand access to a large catalog of songs, playlists, and podcasts across multiple platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music recommendation service
ⓘ
music website ⓘ online music service ⓘ social networking service ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 280 million US dollars ⓘ |
| businessModel | freemium ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developedBy | Last.fm Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Felix Miller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martin Stiksel NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
API for developers
ⓘ
event listings ⓘ groups and communities ⓘ music discovery ⓘ music tagging ⓘ personalized music recommendations ⓘ scrobbling ⓘ user listening charts ⓘ user profiles ⓘ |
| hasUserGeneratedContent |
playlists
ⓘ
shouts ⓘ tags ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Apple Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spotify NERFINISHED ⓘ Tidal NERFINISHED ⓘ music players via plugins ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| offers | subscription service ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
CBS Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CBS Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ Paramount Global NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
artist recommendations
ⓘ
genre recommendations ⓘ personal music charts ⓘ track recommendations ⓘ weekly listening reports ⓘ |
| subscriptionBenefits |
ad-free experience
ⓘ
extra personalization features ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Android
ⓘ
desktop scrobbler applications ⓘ iOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| tracks | user listening history ⓘ |
| usesData | listening history for recommendations ⓘ |
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: Last.fm (via CBS Interactive) Description of subject: Last.fm is an online music streaming and recommendation service known for its “scrobbling” feature that tracks users’ listening habits to suggest new music and generate personalized charts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.