MySpace
E20372
MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MySpace canonical | 21 |
| Myspace | 3 |
| MySpace Music service | 1 |
| Myspace (stylized without capital S) | 1 |
| Myspace logo.svg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161274 — 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: MySpace Context triple: [Web 2.0, hasExample, MySpace]
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A.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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B.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
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C.
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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D.
AOL Instant Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger was a pioneering late-1990s and early-2000s instant messaging service that popularized online chat and status-based communication for mainstream internet users.
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E.
X.com
X.com is an online financial services and payments company co-founded by Elon Musk in 1999 that later became part of PayPal.
- 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: MySpace Target entity description: MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.
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A.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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B.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
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C.
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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D.
AOL Instant Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger was a pioneering late-1990s and early-2000s instant messaging service that popularized online chat and status-based communication for mainstream internet users.
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E.
X.com
X.com is an online financial services and payments company co-founded by Elon Musk in 1999 that later became part of PayPal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online community
ⓘ
social networking service ⓘ technology company ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate |
2005-07-18
ⓘ
2011-06-29 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPrice | 580000000 USD ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| competitor |
Facebook
ⓘ
Friendster ⓘ Hi5 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| declineReason |
competition from Facebook
ⓘ
usability and spam issues ⓘ |
| founder |
Aber Whitcomb
ⓘ
Brad Greenspan ⓘ Chris DeWolfe ⓘ Josh Berman ⓘ Tom Anderson ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2003-08-01 ⓘ |
| genre |
music social network
ⓘ
social media ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Beverly Hills, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Beverly Hills, California
Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| inception | 2003 ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
social media ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| logoImage |
MySpace
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Myspace logo.svg
|
| mainSubject |
entertainment
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
HTML and CSS customization by users
ⓘ
MySpace self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MySpace Music service
Top 8 friends list feature ⓘ ability to embed music players on profiles ⓘ band and artist profile pages ⓘ highly customizable user profile pages ⓘ |
| operatingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| ownedBy | News Corporation ⓘ |
| owner |
Justin Timberlake
ⓘ
News Corporation ⓘ Specific Media Group ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Fox Interactive Media ⓘ |
| peakUserCount | over 100 million users ⓘ |
| peakUserCountTime | around 2008 ⓘ |
| ranking | most visited social networking site in the mid-2000s ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs |
MySpace
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Myspace (stylized without capital S)
|
| registration | required for most features ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://myspace.com ⓘ |
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: MySpace Description of subject: MySpace is a pioneering early-2000s social networking website that allowed users to create customizable profile pages, connect with friends, and share music and other media.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Myspace (stylized without capital S)
this entity surface form:
MySpace Music service
this entity surface form:
Myspace
this entity surface form:
Myspace
this entity surface form:
Myspace