Fastly
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Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fastly canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6443415 — 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: Fastly Context triple: [Bytecode Alliance, hasMember, Fastly]
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A.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
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B.
Zscaler
Zscaler is a cloud-based information security company known for providing secure access and zero-trust networking solutions to enterprises worldwide.
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C.
CDN
CDN is the ICAO airline designator formerly assigned to Canadian Airlines, a major now-defunct Canadian carrier.
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D.
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Alibaba Cloud CDN is a content delivery network service that accelerates the distribution of web content globally by caching and delivering data from edge nodes closer to end users.
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E.
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency.
- 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: Fastly Target entity description: Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
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A.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
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B.
Zscaler
Zscaler is a cloud-based information security company known for providing secure access and zero-trust networking solutions to enterprises worldwide.
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C.
CDN
CDN is the ICAO airline designator formerly assigned to Canadian Airlines, a major now-defunct Canadian carrier.
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D.
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Alibaba Cloud CDN is a content delivery network service that accelerates the distribution of web content globally by caching and delivering data from edge nodes closer to end users.
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E.
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud computing company
ⓘ
content delivery network provider ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focus |
developer-centric tooling
ⓘ
edge security ⓘ low-latency content delivery ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Artur Bergman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
API-first platform
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edge logic via VCL ⓘ global anycast network ⓘ real-time analytics ⓘ real-time configuration changes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
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content delivery network ⓘ edge computing ⓘ |
| offers |
TLS/SSL termination
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edge caching ⓘ load balancing ⓘ log streaming ⓘ origin shielding ⓘ real-time content delivery ⓘ |
| service |
API acceleration
ⓘ
DDoS protection ⓘ application delivery ⓘ content delivery network ⓘ edge cloud platform ⓘ edge compute ⓘ edge security ⓘ image optimization ⓘ video streaming delivery ⓘ web application firewall ⓘ web performance optimization ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| supports |
HTTP
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HTTP/2 ⓘ HTTP/3 ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
SaaS providers
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e-commerce companies ⓘ enterprises ⓘ media companies ⓘ |
| technologyStack | Varnish-based caching ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | FSLY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fastly Description of subject: Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.