Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
E751068
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is the Philippines’ largest and oldest telecommunications and digital services provider, offering fixed-line, mobile, and internet services nationwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PLDT | 1 |
| Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8694468 — 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: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company Context triple: [Aglipay, Quirino, Philippines, telecommunicationsProvider, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company]
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A.
Telkom
Telkom is a major South African telecommunications company that provides fixed-line, mobile, and data services across the country.
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B.
Pacific Telesis
Pacific Telesis was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, serving as one of the Baby Bells providing local telephone and related services in the western United States.
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C.
NLEX Corporation
NLEX Corporation is a Philippine toll road company that manages and operates major expressways in the northern part of Luzon.
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D.
PacTel Cellular
PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
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E.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
- 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: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company Target entity description: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is the Philippines’ largest and oldest telecommunications and digital services provider, offering fixed-line, mobile, and internet services nationwide.
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A.
Telkom
Telkom is a major South African telecommunications company that provides fixed-line, mobile, and data services across the country.
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B.
Pacific Telesis
Pacific Telesis was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, serving as one of the Baby Bells providing local telephone and related services in the western United States.
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C.
NLEX Corporation
NLEX Corporation is a Philippine toll road company that manages and operates major expressways in the northern part of Luzon.
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D.
PacTel Cellular
PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
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E.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fixed-line telephone operator
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internet service provider ⓘ public company ⓘ telecommunications company ⓘ |
| brand |
PLDT Enterprise
NERFINISHED
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PLDT Global NERFINISHED ⓘ PLDT Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNetworkType |
4G LTE
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5G ⓘ fiber-to-the-home ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Makati, Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
digital services
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telecommunications ⓘ |
| isLargestTelecomOperatorIn | Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOldestTelecomOperatorIn | Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimaryMarket |
English
ⓘ
Filipino ⓘ |
| marketPosition | major telecommunications provider in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| offers |
cloud services
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data center services ⓘ digital platforms ⓘ fixed broadband ⓘ wireless services ⓘ |
| ownsBrand |
Smart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Cellular NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Luzon
NERFINISHED
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Mindanao NERFINISHED ⓘ Visayas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulator | National Telecommunications Commission of the Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| service |
ICT services
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broadband internet ⓘ data services ⓘ enterprise solutions ⓘ fiber internet ⓘ fixed-line telephony ⓘ mobile telephony ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | PLDT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing |
New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
Philippine Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Digitel Mobile Philippines
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PLDT Global Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Smart Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ ePLDT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
NYSE:PHI
NERFINISHED
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PSE:TEL 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: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company Description of subject: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is the Philippines’ largest and oldest telecommunications and digital services provider, offering fixed-line, mobile, and internet services nationwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Aglipay, Quirino, Philippines
→
telecommunicationsProvider
→
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
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this entity surface form:
PLDT