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Instagram is a popular photo and video sharing social media platform known for its visual content, stories, and influencer culture.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Instagram canonical | 911 |
| Instagram Stories | 4 |
| Instagram app | 3 |
| Instagram mobile app | 3 |
| Instagram, LLC | 2 |
| Flickr | 1 |
| Instagram (limited features) | 1 |
| Instagram Explore tab | 1 |
| Instagram Story | 1 |
| Instagram apps | 1 |
| Instagram iOS app | 1 |
| Instagram profiles | 1 |
| Instagram website | 1 |
| Single "Instagram" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40969 — 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: Instagram Context triple: [Greta Thunberg, hasSocialMediaProfile, Instagram]
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A.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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B.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
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C.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
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D.
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video-sharing and streaming platform where users can upload, watch, and interact with a vast range of video content.
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E.
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.
- 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: Instagram Target entity description: Instagram is a popular photo and video sharing social media platform known for its visual content, stories, and influencer culture.
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A.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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B.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
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C.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
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D.
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video-sharing and streaming platform where users can upload, watch, and interact with a vast range of video content.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mobile application
ⓘ
photo sharing service ⓘ social media platform ⓘ video sharing service ⓘ |
| acquisitionBy |
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Facebook Inc.
|
| acquisitionCost | 1000000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-04-09 ⓘ |
| androidReleaseDate | 2012-04-03 ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| commercial | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer |
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Instagram, Inc.
|
| formerOwner |
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Facebook Inc.
|
| founder |
Kevin Systrom
ⓘ
Mike Krieger ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2010-10-06 ⓘ |
| genre |
microblogging
ⓘ
photo sharing ⓘ social networking ⓘ video sharing ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Direct Messages
ⓘ
Explore tab ⓘ IGTV (discontinued as standalone brand) ⓘ Live streaming ⓘ Reels ⓘ Stories ⓘ business profiles ⓘ creator accounts ⓘ filters ⓘ hashtags ⓘ location tagging ⓘ photo sharing ⓘ shopping tags ⓘ verification badges ⓘ video sharing ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Menlo Park, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Menlo Park, California, United States
|
| initialReleaseDate | 2010-10-06 ⓘ |
| launchedOnPlatform | iOS ⓘ |
| logoDescription | rounded square camera glyph with gradient colors ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Stories format popularization
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influencer culture ⓘ visual content focus ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Meta Platforms
|
| parentOrganization |
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Meta Platforms
|
| primaryRevenueModel | advertising ⓘ |
| registration | required ⓘ |
| slogan | Capture and Share the World's Moments (historical slogan) ⓘ |
| supportsBusinessUse |
brand marketing
ⓘ
influencer marketing ⓘ social commerce ⓘ |
| supportsContentFormat |
Reels
ⓘ
Stories ⓘ carousels ⓘ images ⓘ short videos ⓘ vertical video ⓘ |
| webVersionReleaseDate | 2012-11-05 ⓘ |
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: Instagram Description of subject: Instagram is a popular photo and video sharing social media platform known for its visual content, stories, and influencer culture.
Referenced by (932)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Instagram (limited features)
subject surface form:
Zara Larsson
subject surface form:
"Another one"
subject surface form:
Shannon de Lima