Socialcam (as co-founder)
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Socialcam is a now-defunct mobile social video-sharing app that gained rapid popularity in the early 2010s and was acquired by Autodesk in 2012.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Socialcam (as co-founder) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1914050 — 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: Socialcam (as co-founder) Context triple: [Kyle Vogt, founded, Socialcam (as co-founder)]
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A.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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B.
Friendster
Friendster was one of the earliest major social networking websites, popular in the early 2000s for connecting friends online before eventually declining and shutting down.
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C.
Burbn
Burbn was a location-based photo-sharing startup that served as the precursor to and foundation for what became Instagram.
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D.
Ning
Ning is an online platform that enables users and organizations to create their own custom social networks and communities.
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E.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging and social media app known for its disappearing photos and videos, creative filters, and Stories feature popular among younger users.
- 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: Socialcam (as co-founder) Target entity description: Socialcam is a now-defunct mobile social video-sharing app that gained rapid popularity in the early 2010s and was acquired by Autodesk in 2012.
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A.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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B.
Friendster
Friendster was one of the earliest major social networking websites, popular in the early 2000s for connecting friends online before eventually declining and shutting down.
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C.
Burbn
Burbn was a location-based photo-sharing startup that served as the precursor to and foundation for what became Instagram.
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D.
Ning
Ning is an online platform that enables users and organizations to create their own custom social networks and communities.
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E.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging and social media app known for its disappearing photos and videos, creative filters, and Stories feature popular among younger users.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mobile application
ⓘ
social networking service ⓘ startup company ⓘ video sharing platform ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Autodesk ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmountUSD | 60000000 ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-07-17 ⓘ |
| availableOn |
App Store
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple App Store
Google Play Store ⓘ
surface form:
Google Play
|
| businessModel | freemium ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
Abraham Paskowitz
ⓘ
Ammon Bartram ⓘ Michael Seibel ⓘ Shaan Hathiramani ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Instagram video
ⓘ
Viddy ⓘ |
| contentFormat | short-form video ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer |
Socialcam
ⓘ
surface form:
Socialcam Inc.
|
| feature |
Facebook integration
ⓘ
Twitter integration ⓘ cloud storage for videos ⓘ filters and effects ⓘ social feed ⓘ video recording ⓘ video sharing ⓘ |
| genre | social video-sharing app ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| industry |
mobile video
ⓘ
social media ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Facebook
ⓘ
surface form:
Facebook Open Graph
|
| launchDate | 2011-03 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early mobile social video innovation
ⓘ
rapid user growth in 2012 ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition | Autodesk ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod | early 2010s ⓘ |
| platform |
mobile
ⓘ
web ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Java
ⓘ
Objective-C ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
mobile users
ⓘ
social media users ⓘ |
| userRegistration | required ⓘ |
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: Socialcam (as co-founder) Description of subject: Socialcam is a now-defunct mobile social video-sharing app that gained rapid popularity in the early 2010s and was acquired by Autodesk in 2012.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.