Tiny Speck
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Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiny Speck canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977098 — 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.
Target entity: Tiny Speck Context triple: [Stewart Butterfield, coFounded, Tiny Speck]
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Tiny Soderball
Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
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A Speck of Dust
A Speck of Dust is a stand-up comedy special by Sarah Silverman featuring her characteristic blend of sharp social commentary and personal storytelling.
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Plankton’s Plan Z
Plankton’s Plan Z is the elaborate villainous scheme in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which Plankton attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over Bikini Bottom.
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The Little People
"The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
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E.
Boontling
Boontling is a highly localized and inventive American English argot developed in the late 19th century in Boonville, California, known for its unique vocabulary and obscure origins.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tiny Speck Target entity description: Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
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A.
Tiny Soderball
Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
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B.
A Speck of Dust
A Speck of Dust is a stand-up comedy special by Sarah Silverman featuring her characteristic blend of sharp social commentary and personal storytelling.
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C.
Plankton’s Plan Z
Plankton’s Plan Z is the elaborate villainous scheme in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which Plankton attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over Bikini Bottom.
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D.
The Little People
"The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
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E.
Boontling
Boontling is a highly localized and inventive American English argot developed in the late 19th century in Boonville, California, known for its unique vocabulary and obscure origins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software company
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startup company ⓘ |
| associatedPerson |
Cal Henderson
NERFINISHED
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Eric Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Mourachov NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewart Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | venture-backed startup ⓘ |
| closedProduct | Glitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Cal Henderson
NERFINISHED
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Eric Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Mourachov NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewart Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| developed |
Glitch
NERFINISHED
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Slack (early versions) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
online multiplayer gaming (initially)
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team communication and collaboration (later) ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cal Henderson
NERFINISHED
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Eric Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Mourachov NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewart Butterfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco
NERFINISHED
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Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
collaboration software
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enterprise software ⓘ online gaming ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the workplace communication platform that became Slack
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developing the online game Glitch ⓘ |
| notableEvent | pivot from game development to workplace communication software ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Glitch
NERFINISHED
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Slack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operated | Glitch online game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pivotedTo | enterprise communication platform development ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Slack Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productOutcome |
Glitch shut down
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Slack became a widely used workplace communication tool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorProduct | Slack 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.
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.
Subject: Tiny Speck Description of subject: Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.