IAC
E18716
IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IAC canonical | 19 |
| IAC Inc. | 4 |
| IAC/InterActiveCorp | 4 |
| IAC (prior to spin-off) | 1 |
| IAC Search & Applications segment (historically within IAC) | 1 |
| NASDAQ:IAC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152101 — 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: IAC Context triple: [People, ownedBy, IAC]
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A.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Obvious Corporation
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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C.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
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D.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Alliance for Affordable Internet
The Alliance for Affordable Internet is a global coalition of governments, companies, and civil society organizations working to reduce internet costs and expand affordable broadband access in developing and emerging economies.
- 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: IAC Target entity description: IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
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A.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Obvious Corporation
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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C.
Westwood One
Westwood One is a major American radio network best known for its nationwide sports coverage, including live broadcasts of NFL games.
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D.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Alliance for Affordable Internet
The Alliance for Affordable Internet is a global coalition of governments, companies, and civil society organizations working to reduce internet costs and expand affordable broadband access in developing and emerging economies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
holding company
ⓘ
internet company ⓘ media company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
holding company for online brands
ⓘ
portfolio management of digital businesses ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerName |
InterActiveCorp
ⓘ
surface form:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
InterActiveCorp ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Barry Diller ⓘ |
| foundedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor |
Home Shopping Network (HSN) interests
ⓘ
USA Network ⓘ
surface form:
USA Networks
|
| hasSubsidiaryType |
consumer internet brands
ⓘ
digital content companies ⓘ online marketplaces ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
media ⓘ online services ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Barry Diller ⓘ |
| notableAsset |
Angi – home services marketplace
ⓘ
Dotdash Meredith – digital publishing division ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
digital marketplaces
ⓘ
entertainment and media ⓘ home services ⓘ online publishing ⓘ search and reference ⓘ |
| owns |
Angi Inc.
ⓘ
Ask Media Group ⓘ Dotdash Meredith ⓘ
surface form:
Byrdie (via Dotdash Meredith)
Care.com ⓘ Dictionary.com ⓘ Dotdash Meredith ⓘ Dotdash Meredith ⓘ
surface form:
Investopedia (via Dotdash Meredith)
Match Group (historically, prior to spin-off) ⓘ Serious Eats (via Dotdash Meredith) ⓘ HuffPost ⓘ
surface form:
The Daily Beast (historically/partly)
Dotdash Meredith ⓘ
surface form:
The Spruce (via Dotdash Meredith)
Tinder (historically, via Match Group prior to spin-off) ⓘ Dotdash Meredith ⓘ
surface form:
Verywell (via Dotdash Meredith)
Vimeo (historically, prior to spin-off) ⓘ |
| portfolioStrategy | acquisition and incubation of internet businesses ⓘ |
| role |
Barry Diller
ⓘ
surface form:
Barry Diller – chairman
|
| scope | global operations ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tradedAs |
IAC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NASDAQ:IAC
|
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: IAC Description of subject: IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
People
this entity surface form:
IAC Inc.
this entity surface form:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
this entity surface form:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
this entity surface form:
IAC Search & Applications segment (historically within IAC)
subject surface form:
Vimeo
subject surface form:
Vimeo
subject surface form:
Tinder
subject surface form:
Match Group
subject surface form:
Match Group
this entity surface form:
IAC (prior to spin-off)
this entity surface form:
IAC Inc.
subject surface form:
Ask Jeeves
this entity surface form:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
this entity surface form:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
subject surface form:
People