Snap
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Snap is a technology and social media company best known for creating Snapchat and developing camera-focused hardware and augmented reality products.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Snap canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2413072 — 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: Snap Context triple: [Spectacles, brand, Snap]
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A.
The Snap
The Snap is the catastrophic event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Thanos uses the Infinity Gauntlet to erase half of all life in the universe.
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B.
Sac
Sac is an alternative name for the Sauk, a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region of North America.
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C.
Slash
Slash is a renowned rock guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses, celebrated for his iconic riffs and top-hatted stage persona.
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D.
Rappen
Rappen is the German term for the centime-like subunit of the Swiss franc, used to denote its smaller denominations.
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E.
Squirt
Squirt is a playful young sea turtle from Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo," known for his energetic personality and close bond with his father, Crush.
- 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: Snap Target entity description: Snap is a technology and social media company best known for creating Snapchat and developing camera-focused hardware and augmented reality products.
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A.
The Snap
The Snap is the catastrophic event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Thanos uses the Infinity Gauntlet to erase half of all life in the universe.
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B.
Sac
Sac is an alternative name for the Sauk, a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region of North America.
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C.
Slash
Slash is a renowned rock guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses, celebrated for his iconic riffs and top-hatted stage persona.
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D.
Rappen
Rappen is the German term for the centime-like subunit of the Swiss franc, used to denote its smaller denominations.
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E.
Squirt
Squirt is a playful young sea turtle from Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo," known for his energetic personality and close bond with his father, Crush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
social media company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| businessModel | advertising-based ⓘ |
| coreBrand | Snapchat ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| develops |
augmented reality lenses
ⓘ
camera software ⓘ mobile applications ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
augmented reality experiences
ⓘ
camera technology ⓘ visual communication ⓘ |
| formerName |
Snap Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Snapchat Inc.
|
| foundedAs |
Snap Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Snapchat Inc.
|
| foundedBy |
Bobby Murphy
ⓘ
Evan Spiegel ⓘ Reggie Brown ⓘ |
| foundedOn | September 16, 2011 ⓘ |
| hasCoFounderRole | Bobby Murphy, CTO ⓘ |
| hasFounderRole |
Evan Spiegel
ⓘ
surface form:
Evan Spiegel, CEO
|
| hasTagline | Camera company ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
augmented reality
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ social media ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| logo | Ghost logo ⓘ |
| offersService |
digital advertising
ⓘ
ephemeral messaging ⓘ multimedia messaging ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| operatesPlatform | Snapchat ⓘ |
| primaryProduct | Snapchat ⓘ |
| product |
Bitmoji
ⓘ
Lens Studio ⓘ Snap Camera ⓘ Snap Map ⓘ Snapchat ⓘ Spectacles ⓘ |
| productType |
augmented reality products
ⓘ
camera-focused hardware ⓘ |
| renamedIn | 2016 ⓘ |
| renamedTo | Snap Inc. ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
advertisers
ⓘ
consumers ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | SNAP ⓘ |
| wentPublicOn | March 2, 2017 ⓘ |
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: Snap Description of subject: Snap is a technology and social media company best known for creating Snapchat and developing camera-focused hardware and augmented reality products.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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