Orkut
E564968
Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google that was especially popular in Brazil and India during the mid-2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orkut canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6047041 — 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: Orkut Context triple: [Slide, platform, Orkut]
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A.
Friendster
Friendster was one of the earliest major social networking websites, popular in the early 2000s for connecting friends online before eventually declining and shutting down.
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B.
MySpace
MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.
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C.
Hi5
Hi5 is a social networking website that gained popularity in the mid-2000s as an alternative platform for connecting and sharing with friends online.
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D.
Cốc Cốc
Cốc Cốc is a Vietnamese web browser and search engine tailored to local users, offering features like improved downloading, integrated ad-blocking, and support for Vietnamese language and services.
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E.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
- 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: Orkut Target entity description: Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google that was especially popular in Brazil and India during the mid-2000s.
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A.
Friendster
Friendster was one of the earliest major social networking websites, popular in the early 2000s for connecting friends online before eventually declining and shutting down.
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B.
MySpace
MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.
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C.
Hi5
Hi5 is a social networking website that gained popularity in the mid-2000s as an alternative platform for connecting and sharing with friends online.
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D.
Cốc Cốc
Cốc Cốc is a Vietnamese web browser and search engine tailored to local users, offering features like improved downloading, integrated ad-blocking, and support for Vietnamese language and services.
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E.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | social networking service ⓘ |
| allowedThirdPartyApps | yes ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | Google account ⓘ |
| commercial | yes ⓘ |
| competitor |
Facebook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hi5 NERFINISHED ⓘ MySpace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Orkut Büyükkökten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| discontinuedDate | 2014-09-30 ⓘ |
| hadSecurityIssues | yes ⓘ |
| hadSpamProblems | yes ⓘ |
| initialAccessModel | invitation-only ⓘ |
| laterAccessModel | open registration ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2004-01-22 ⓘ |
| loginRequired | yes ⓘ |
| mainUserBase |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Orkut Büyükkökten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIn | history of social networking ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Google Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ other languages ⓘ |
| owner | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod |
late-2000s
ⓘ
mid-2000s ⓘ |
| platform | web ⓘ |
| providedFeature |
communities
ⓘ
friend lists ⓘ photo sharing ⓘ scraps ⓘ status updates ⓘ testimonials ⓘ user profiles ⓘ video embedding ⓘ |
| reasonForShutdown |
competition from other social networks
ⓘ
declining usage ⓘ |
| registration | required ⓘ |
| shutdownAnnouncedBy | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shutdownAnnouncementDate | 2014-06-30 ⓘ |
| successor | Google+ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedAdvertising | yes ⓘ |
| userInteractionModel | friend-based social graph ⓘ |
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: Orkut Description of subject: Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google that was especially popular in Brazil and India during the mid-2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.