E5698
LinkedIn is a professional networking platform and social media service focused on careers, business connections, and job opportunities.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T82120 — 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: LinkedIn Context triple: [Microsoft, product, LinkedIn]
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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.
CAREER
CAREER is a prestigious National Science Foundation program that supports early-career faculty in building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in research and education.
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C.
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.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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E.
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.
- 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: LinkedIn Target entity description: LinkedIn is a professional networking platform and social media service focused on careers, business connections, and job opportunities.
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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.
CAREER
CAREER is a prestigious National Science Foundation program that supports early-career faculty in building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in research and education.
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C.
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.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (98)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online service
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professional networking platform ⓘ social media platform ⓘ social networking service ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnouncementDate | 2016-06-13 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompletionDate | 2016-12-08 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPrice | 26000000000 USD ⓘ |
| availableInLanguage |
Arabic
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Chinese ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| businessModel | freemium ⓘ |
| competitor |
Facebook
ⓘ
Glassdoor ⓘ Indeed ⓘ Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
X (Twitter)
Xing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerKeyPerson | Jeff Weiner ⓘ |
| founder |
Allen Blue
ⓘ
Eric Ly ⓘ Jean-Luc Vaillant ⓘ Konstantin Guericke ⓘ Reid Hoffman ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2002-12-14 ⓘ |
| hasAPI |
LinkedIn
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
LinkedIn API
|
| hasFeature |
Easy Apply
ⓘ
InMail ⓘ company pages ⓘ connections ⓘ creator mode ⓘ endorsements ⓘ events ⓘ feed algorithm ⓘ groups ⓘ job alerts ⓘ newsletters ⓘ recommendations ⓘ skills section ⓘ |
| hasMobileApp |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Sunnyvale
ⓘ
surface form:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
|
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ recruitment ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Ryan Roslansky ⓘ |
| offersService |
job listings
ⓘ
news feed ⓘ online learning ⓘ online professional profiles ⓘ professional messaging ⓘ recruiting tools ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Microsoft ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Jeff Weiner
ⓘ
surface form:
Jeff Weiner – former Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Roslansky – Chief Executive Officer ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation | Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ |
| primaryFocus |
business networking
ⓘ
career development ⓘ job searching ⓘ professional networking ⓘ |
| product |
LinkedIn
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LinkedIn Ads
LinkedIn Learning ⓘ Premium Business ⓘ Premium Career ⓘ Recruiter ⓘ LinkedIn self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sales Navigator
|
| publicLaunchDate | 2003-05-05 ⓘ |
| registrationRequired | true ⓘ |
| revenueModel |
advertising
ⓘ
premium subscriptions ⓘ recruiting services ⓘ |
| securityIncident |
2012 password leak
ⓘ
2016 credential leak reuse ⓘ |
| subsidiary | LinkedIn Learning ⓘ |
| supportsAuthentication |
email and password
ⓘ
single sign-on ⓘ two-factor authentication ⓘ |
| supportsContentType |
articles
ⓘ
documents ⓘ images ⓘ live streams ⓘ text posts ⓘ videos ⓘ |
| userFocus |
businesses
ⓘ
professionals ⓘ recruiters ⓘ students ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://www.linkedin.com ⓘ |
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: LinkedIn Description of subject: LinkedIn is a professional networking platform and social media service focused on careers, business connections, and job opportunities.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Premium Career
subject surface form:
Premium Career
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Premium Business
offers fewer business-focused features than LinkedIn Premium Business
→
offersFewerFeaturesThan
→
LinkedIn
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Premium Career
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Premium Business
offers fewer business-focused features than LinkedIn Premium Business
→
offersFewerBusinessFocusedFeaturesThan
→
LinkedIn
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Premium Career
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Premium Business
offers fewer business-focused features than LinkedIn Premium Business
→
lacksAdvancedBusinessFeaturesComparedTo
→
LinkedIn
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Premium Career
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Premium Business
offers fewer business-focused features than LinkedIn Premium Business
→
isLessBusinessOrientedThan
→
LinkedIn
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Premium Career
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Premium Business
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Corporation
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn Corporation
this entity surface form:
professional networking service LinkedIn
this entity surface form:
linkedin.com
Microsoft Canada (historically, main offices in Mississauga)
→
productPortfolioIncludes
→
LinkedIn
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Microsoft Canada
this entity surface form:
LinkedIn solutions for enterprises in Canada
subject surface form:
John Zimmer