Flickr
E374371
image hosting website
online community
photo sharing service
social networking service
video hosting service
web application
Flickr is an online photo and video hosting and sharing platform that became one of the earliest popular social media sites for photographers and casual users alike.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flickr canonical | 4 |
| Flickr Commons | 1 |
| Flickr Pro | 1 |
| Flickr for iOS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626610 — 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: Flickr Context triple: [Esther Dyson, investorIn, Flickr]
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A.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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B.
Getty Images
Getty Images is a leading global provider of stock photography, editorial imagery, video, and other visual content for media, advertising, and corporate clients.
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C.
Lovelight
"Lovelight" is a lesser-known song by ABBA, originally released as the B-side to their 1979 single "Chiquitita."
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D.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is an online photo services company best known for allowing users to create and order personalized photo books, prints, and gifts.
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E.
Photos
Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
- 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: Flickr Target entity description: Flickr is an online photo and video hosting and sharing platform that became one of the earliest popular social media sites for photographers and casual users alike.
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A.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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B.
Getty Images
Getty Images is a leading global provider of stock photography, editorial imagery, video, and other visual content for media, advertising, and corporate clients.
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C.
Lovelight
"Lovelight" is a lesser-known song by ABBA, originally released as the B-side to their 1979 single "Chiquitita."
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D.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is an online photo services company best known for allowing users to create and order personalized photo books, prints, and gifts.
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E.
Photos
Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
image hosting website
ⓘ
online community ⓘ photo sharing service ⓘ social networking service ⓘ video hosting service ⓘ web application ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
SmugMug
ⓘ
Yahoo ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| acquisitionDate |
2018
ⓘ
March 2005 ⓘ |
| allowsUploadFrom |
desktop computers
ⓘ
mobile devices ⓘ |
| APIType | REST ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| contentType |
digital photographs
ⓘ
digital videos ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| developer | Ludicorp ⓘ |
| founder |
Caterina Fake
ⓘ
Stewart Butterfield ⓘ |
| genre |
online community
ⓘ
photo management ⓘ social media ⓘ |
| hasAPI | Flickr API ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
APIs for developers
ⓘ
Creative Commons licensing options ⓘ Pro accounts ⓘ albums ⓘ collections ⓘ comments ⓘ explore page ⓘ favorites ⓘ geotagging ⓘ groups ⓘ photo hosting ⓘ photo sharing ⓘ photo statistics ⓘ search by tags ⓘ search by text ⓘ tagging ⓘ video hosting ⓘ |
| hasMobileApp |
Flickr for Android
ⓘ
Flickr self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Flickr for iOS
|
| hasProgram |
Flickr Pro subscription
ⓘ
The Commons ⓘ |
| inception | 2004 ⓘ |
| launchDate | February 2004 ⓘ |
| licenseOptions |
Creative Commons license
ⓘ
surface form:
Creative Commons licenses
all rights reserved ⓘ |
| logoImage | Flickr logo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early Web 2.0 service
ⓘ
early use of folksonomy ⓘ large community of photographers ⓘ popularizing photo tagging ⓘ |
| operatingLanguage |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ other languages ⓘ |
| originalLocation | Vancouver ⓘ |
| previousOwner |
Oath Inc.
ⓘ
Verizon ⓘ
surface form:
Verizon Communications
|
| registration |
optional for browsing public content
ⓘ
required for uploading ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Flickr
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Flickr Commons
Flickr self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Flickr Pro
|
| supportsAuthentication | OAuth ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| usedBy |
amateur photographers
ⓘ
casual users ⓘ professional photographers ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://www.flickr.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: Flickr Description of subject: Flickr is an online photo and video hosting and sharing platform that became one of the earliest popular social media sites for photographers and casual users alike.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flickr for iOS