Wikia
E63375
Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikia canonical | 5 |
| Wikia, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T508407 — 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: Wikia Context triple: [Jimmy Wales, coFounded, Wikia]
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A.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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B.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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C.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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D.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
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E.
Wikisource
Wikisource is a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts that anyone can read and help transcribe.
- 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: Wikia Target entity description: Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
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A.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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B.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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C.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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D.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
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E.
Wikisource
Wikisource is a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts that anyone can read and help transcribe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
for-profit company
ⓘ
website ⓘ wiki hosting service ⓘ |
| allows |
community moderation
ⓘ
creation of topic-specific wikis ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Fandom ⓘ |
| businessModel | advertising-supported ⓘ |
| contentType |
collaborative encyclopedias
ⓘ
user-generated content ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Wikipedia ⓘ |
| enables |
collaborative world-building
ⓘ
fan-made encyclopedias ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
entertainment franchises
ⓘ
fan communities ⓘ popular culture ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Fandom ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Angela Beesley
ⓘ
Jimmy Wales ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | for-profit ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
administration tools for community leaders
ⓘ
central user accounts across wikis ⓘ customizable wiki themes ⓘ discussion forums ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicy | multilingual ⓘ |
| hasMainRevenueSource | online advertising ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
|
| licensePolicy | primarily free content licenses ⓘ |
| notableFor | large network of fan wikis ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Wikia
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Wikia, Inc.
|
| operatesIn | worldwide ⓘ |
| ownershipType | privately held company ⓘ |
| platformModel | software as a service ⓘ |
| provides |
collaborative editing platform
ⓘ
free wiki hosting tools ⓘ |
| relationshipToWikipedia | commercial spin-off conceptually related to Wikipedia founders ⓘ |
| sector |
fan culture
ⓘ
online communities ⓘ web hosting ⓘ |
| serviceType |
community-driven wiki hosting platform
ⓘ
fan community platform ⓘ |
| supports | text, images, and multimedia content ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
fans
ⓘ
online communities ⓘ |
| transitionedToBrand | Fandom ⓘ |
| usesSoftware |
MediaWiki
ⓘ
surface form:
MediaWiki (modified)
|
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: Wikia Description of subject: Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wikia, Inc.