Obvious Corporation
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Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obvious Corporation canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T146683 — 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: Obvious Corporation Context triple: [Twitter, Inc., formerName, Obvious Corporation]
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A.
Forever Enterprises
Forever Enterprises is the private company that owns and operates the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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B.
PlumpJack Group
PlumpJack Group is a hospitality and lifestyle company known for its wineries, hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, originally launched in San Francisco.
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C.
Apex Entertainment
Apex Entertainment is a film and television production company known for backing narrative feature projects such as the historical drama "Chappaquiddick."
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D.
Imagine Entertainment
Imagine Entertainment is a prominent American film and television production company known for producing acclaimed movies and series across a wide range of genres.
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E.
Broadway Limited
Broadway Limited was a famous luxury passenger train that operated between New York City and Chicago, serving as one of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier flagship 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: Obvious Corporation Target entity description: Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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A.
Forever Enterprises
Forever Enterprises is the private company that owns and operates the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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B.
PlumpJack Group
PlumpJack Group is a hospitality and lifestyle company known for its wineries, hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, originally launched in San Francisco.
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C.
Apex Entertainment
Apex Entertainment is a film and television production company known for backing narrative feature projects such as the historical drama "Chappaquiddick."
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D.
Imagine Entertainment
Imagine Entertainment is a prominent American film and television production company known for producing acclaimed movies and series across a wide range of genres.
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E.
Broadway Limited
Broadway Limited was a famous luxury passenger train that operated between New York City and Chicago, serving as one of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier flagship services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
holding company ⓘ startup incubator ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Biz Stone
ⓘ
Evan Williams ⓘ Jack Dorsey ⓘ Medium ⓘ Noah Glass ⓘ Odeo ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| businessModel | holding and developing early-stage web products ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus |
social media projects
ⓘ
web startups ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Biz Stone
ⓘ
Evan Williams ⓘ Jack Dorsey ⓘ Noah Glass ⓘ |
| incubated |
Twitter, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| notableFor | incubating Twitter as an independent company ⓘ |
| notableWork | creation of Twitter ⓘ |
| role |
development vehicle for Twitter
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early holding company for Twitter ⓘ |
| spunOut |
Twitter, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
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: Obvious Corporation Description of subject: Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.