Now cards
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Now cards were context-aware information snippets in the Google Now service that proactively displayed personalized, timely updates such as weather, traffic, and reminders based on a user’s habits and location.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Now cards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7933623 — 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)
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Target entity: Now cards Context triple: [Google Now on Tap, relatedFeature, Now cards]
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A.
The Card
The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
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B.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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C.
Nol card
The Nol card is a rechargeable smart card used for paying fares across Dubai’s public transportation network, including metro, buses, trams, and water buses.
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D.
Calling Cards
Calling Cards is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that showcases emerging filmmakers’ early or breakthrough works.
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E.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
- 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: Now cards Target entity description: Now cards were context-aware information snippets in the Google Now service that proactively displayed personalized, timely updates such as weather, traffic, and reminders based on a user’s habits and location.
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A.
The Card
The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
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B.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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C.
Nol card
The Nol card is a rechargeable smart card used for paying fares across Dubai’s public transportation network, including metro, buses, trams, and water buses.
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D.
Calling Cards
Calling Cards is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that showcases emerging filmmakers’ early or breakthrough works.
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E.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
context-aware information card
ⓘ
feature of Google Now ⓘ |
| announcedAt | Google I/O 2012 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
time of day
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travel patterns ⓘ user app usage ⓘ user calendar data ⓘ user location ⓘ user search history ⓘ |
| designGoal |
provide information before users ask
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reduce need for manual search ⓘ |
| developedBy | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureType |
personalized information feed
ⓘ
proactive assistant feature ⓘ |
| integratedInto | Google Assistant experience NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Google Search app for Android NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Google Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| partOf | Google Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
ⓘ
Chrome OS NERFINISHED ⓘ iOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| privacyConcern | use of personal data for predictions ⓘ |
| providedBy |
Google Search app
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google app for Android ⓘ Google app for iOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shows |
calendar events
ⓘ
commute times ⓘ currency conversion suggestions ⓘ flight information ⓘ nearby places ⓘ news updates ⓘ package tracking information ⓘ public transit information ⓘ reminders ⓘ sports scores ⓘ stock market information ⓘ traffic information ⓘ translation suggestions ⓘ weather updates ⓘ |
| status | discontinued as a standalone feature ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
Google Assistant proactive cards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google Feed NERFINISHED ⓘ Google Now feed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| userControl | enable or disable specific card types ⓘ |
| userInteraction |
swipe to dismiss
ⓘ
tap for more details ⓘ |
| uses |
context awareness
ⓘ
machine learning ⓘ |
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: Now cards Description of subject: Now cards were context-aware information snippets in the Google Now service that proactively displayed personalized, timely updates such as weather, traffic, and reminders based on a user’s habits and location.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.