Tumblr
E3609
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tumblr canonical | 25 |
| Tumblr, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T31109 — 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: Tumblr Context triple: [Notorious RBG, hasMedium, Tumblr]
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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.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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D.
the internet
The internet is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that enables worldwide communication, information sharing, and access to digital services.
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E.
ET
ET is the time standard used on the east coast of North America, including major cities like New York and Toronto, switching between Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) seasonally.
- 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: Tumblr Target entity description: Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
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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.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video-sharing and streaming platform where users can upload, watch, and interact with a vast range of video content.
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D.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microblogging platform
ⓘ
social networking service ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Automattic
ⓘ
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization) ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| acquisitionDate |
2013-06-20
ⓘ
2019-08 ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Chinese
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| commercial | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | David Karp ⓘ |
| feature |
NSFW content filters
ⓘ
ask box ⓘ customizable themes ⓘ queue and schedule posts ⓘ reblogging ⓘ tagging system ⓘ |
| founder | David Karp ⓘ |
| genre |
blog hosting service
ⓘ
fandom community platform ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 2007-02-19 ⓘ |
| logo | Tumblr logo ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| originalOwner | Davidville ⓘ |
| owner | Automattic ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Automattic ⓘ |
| previousOwner |
Oath Inc.
ⓘ
Verizon ⓘ
surface form:
Verizon Media
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization) ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| programmingLanguage |
JavaScript
ⓘ
PHP ⓘ |
| registration | required ⓘ |
| supports |
audio posts
ⓘ
chat posts ⓘ link posts ⓘ photo posts ⓘ quote posts ⓘ text posts ⓘ video posts ⓘ |
| website | https://www.tumblr.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: Tumblr Description of subject: Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform known for its highly customizable blogs, fandom communities, and viral multimedia content.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tumblr, Inc.