Bomis
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Bomis was an early web portal and search engine company co-founded by Jimmy Wales that later played a key role in funding and incubating Wikipedia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bomis canonical | 8 |
| Bomis web portal | 1 |
| Bomis.com web portal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T508423 — 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: Bomis Context triple: [Jimmy Wales, founded, Bomis]
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A.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
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B.
Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
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C.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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D.
Snyder Communications
Snyder Communications was a marketing and advertising services company founded by businessman Dan Snyder that grew rapidly in the 1990s before being acquired by Havas.
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E.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
- 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: Bomis Target entity description: Bomis was an early web portal and search engine company co-founded by Jimmy Wales that later played a key role in funding and incubating Wikipedia.
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A.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
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B.
Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
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C.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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D.
Snyder Communications
Snyder Communications was a marketing and advertising services company founded by businessman Dan Snyder that grew rapidly in the 1990s before being acquired by Havas.
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E.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
privately held company
ⓘ
search engine company ⓘ web portal ⓘ |
| businessModel |
advertising-supported content
ⓘ
subscription-based premium content ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Jimmy Wales
ⓘ
Michael Davis ⓘ Tim Shell ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| created | Nupedia ⓘ |
| describedAs | “the search engine for things that matter” ⓘ |
| employedAs |
Larry Sanger
ⓘ
surface form:
Larry Sanger – editor-in-chief of Nupedia
|
| era | dot-com era ⓘ |
| focus |
searchable web directory
ⓘ
user-edited web rings and directories ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jimmy Wales
ⓘ
Michael Davis ⓘ Tim Shell ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Defunct internet company
ⓘ
Search engine company ⓘ Web portal ⓘ |
| hasEmployee |
Jimmy Wales
ⓘ
Larry Sanger ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Jimmy Wales
ⓘ
Michael Davis ⓘ Tim Shell ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Bomis logo ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Diego, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego, California
|
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ web portal services ⓘ |
| influenced | creation of the Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| languageOfWebsite | English ⓘ |
| notableAspect |
early association with adult-oriented content sections
ⓘ
used profits to support free knowledge projects ⓘ |
| notableFor |
funding early development of Wikipedia
ⓘ
hosting Nupedia and Wikipedia on its servers ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| product |
Bomis
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bomis.com web portal
|
| provided |
office space for early Wikipedia operations
ⓘ
technical infrastructure for early Wikipedia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Nupedia
ⓘ
Wikipedia ⓘ |
| roleInNupedia |
funded Nupedia project
ⓘ
owner of Nupedia ⓘ |
| roleInWikipedia |
incubator for Wikipedia
ⓘ
initial financial backer of Wikipedia ⓘ |
| website | http://www.bomis.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: Bomis Description of subject: Bomis was an early web portal and search engine company co-founded by Jimmy Wales that later played a key role in funding and incubating Wikipedia.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bomis web portal