.name
E831093
.name is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) primarily intended for personal websites and individual online identities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| .name canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9932337 — 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: .name Context triple: [VeriSign, Inc., managesTopLevelDomain, .name]
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A.
Nome
Nome is a remote coastal city in western Alaska known historically for its gold rush heritage and as a key transportation and supply hub on the Bering Sea.
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B.
Nom
Nom is a domain name marketplace and service platform operating under the brand Nom.com.
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C.
Nama
Nama is a Khoe language spoken primarily by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions of southern Africa.
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D.
Nume
Nume is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Gaua in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Whatsername
Whatsername is a central, unnamed love interest and symbol of lost youth and regret in Green Day’s rock opera album and musical "American Idiot."
- 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: .name Target entity description: .name is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) primarily intended for personal websites and individual online identities.
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A.
Nome
Nome is a remote coastal city in western Alaska known historically for its gold rush heritage and as a key transportation and supply hub on the Bering Sea.
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B.
Nom
Nom is a domain name marketplace and service platform operating under the brand Nom.com.
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C.
Nama
Nama is a Khoe language spoken primarily by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions of southern Africa.
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D.
Nume
Nume is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Gaua in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Whatsername
Whatsername is a central, unnamed love interest and symbol of lost youth and regret in Green Day’s rock opera album and musical "American Idiot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
domain name system root zone entry
ⓘ
generic top-level domain ⓘ top-level domain ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
online identity
ⓘ
personal namespace ⓘ |
| category | gTLD ⓘ |
| commercialUse | allowed ⓘ |
| dnsProtocol | DNS ⓘ |
| dnsSecurityExtensionsSupport | yes ⓘ |
| governedBy | ICANN policies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
individual online identities
ⓘ
personal websites ⓘ |
| internationalizedDomainNamesSupport | yes ⓘ |
| introducedAsTLDType | generic top-level domain ⓘ |
| managedBy | VeriSign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namingStructure |
individual identity labels
ⓘ
personal names ⓘ |
| personalUse | encouraged ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | none (generic, global use) ⓘ |
| punycodeSupport | yes ⓘ |
| registrationPolicy | open registration ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Global Name Registry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| supports |
second-level registrations
ⓘ
third-level registrations ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup |
individuals
ⓘ
personal branding users ⓘ |
| useCase |
online identity presence
ⓘ
personal email addresses ⓘ personal profile pages ⓘ |
| zone | Internet root zone 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: .name Description of subject: .name is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) primarily intended for personal websites and individual online identities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
VeriSign, Inc.