Slide
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Slide was a social media application company best known for creating widgets and apps for platforms like MySpace and Facebook before being acquired by Google.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Slide canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1176481 — 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: Slide Context triple: [Max Levchin, founded, Slide]
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A.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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B.
Carousel
Carousel is a landmark 1945 American musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, renowned for its poignant story, innovative integration of song and narrative, and enduring songs like "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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C.
Carousel
The Carousel in Prospect Park is a historic, hand-carved amusement ride that serves as a beloved family attraction within the Brooklyn park.
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D.
Carousel
Carousel was a photo and video gallery app developed by Dropbox to organize, back up, and share users’ media across devices.
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E.
Surface
Surface is Microsoft's line of touchscreen-based personal computing devices, including laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1 hybrids.
- 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: Slide Target entity description: Slide was a social media application company best known for creating widgets and apps for platforms like MySpace and Facebook before being acquired by Google.
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A.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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B.
Carousel
Carousel was a photo and video gallery app developed by Dropbox to organize, back up, and share users’ media across devices.
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C.
Carousel
Carousel is a landmark 1945 American musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, renowned for its poignant story, innovative integration of song and narrative, and enduring songs like "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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D.
Carousel
The Carousel in Prospect Park is a historic, hand-carved amusement ride that serves as a beloved family attraction within the Brooklyn park.
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E.
Surface
Surface is Microsoft's line of touchscreen-based personal computing devices, including laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1 hybrids.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
social media application company
ⓘ
startup company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Google ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | corporate acquisition ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| businessModel |
ad-supported
ⓘ
virtual goods ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| founder | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| industry |
social gaming
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
| knownFor |
applications for Facebook
ⓘ
applications for MySpace ⓘ creating widgets for social networking sites ⓘ social entertainment apps ⓘ |
| notableExecutive | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
FunWall
ⓘ
SuperPoke! ⓘ SuperPoke! ⓘ
surface form:
SuperPoke! Pets
Top Friends ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | web-based ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Google ⓘ |
| platform |
Bebo
ⓘ
Facebook ⓘ MySpace ⓘ Orkut ⓘ |
| productType |
games
ⓘ
social networking applications ⓘ widgets ⓘ |
| serviceType |
social entertainment
ⓘ
social gaming ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup | social network users ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
Flash (software)
ⓘ
surface form:
Flash
JavaScript ⓘ |
| websiteType | web application provider ⓘ |
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: Slide Description of subject: Slide was a social media application company best known for creating widgets and apps for platforms like MySpace and Facebook before being acquired by Google.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.