Lumen Technologies
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Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lumen Technologies canonical | 15 |
| Level 3 Communications | 1 |
| NYSE:LUMN | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T291023 — 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: Lumen Technologies Context triple: [Lumen Field, namedAfter, Lumen Technologies]
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A.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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B.
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable was a major American cable television and broadband internet service provider that operated independently until its acquisition by Charter Communications in 2016.
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C.
Comcast
Comcast is a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate best known as a leading cable, internet, and entertainment provider.
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D.
AT&T Fiber
AT&T Fiber is a high-speed fiber-optic internet service offered by AT&T, providing gigabit broadband connectivity to residential and business customers in various regions across the United States.
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E.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
- 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: Lumen Technologies Target entity description: Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
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A.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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B.
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable was a major American cable television and broadband internet service provider that operated independently until its acquisition by Charter Communications in 2016.
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C.
Comcast
Comcast is a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate best known as a leading cable, internet, and entertainment provider.
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D.
AT&T Fiber
AT&T Fiber is a high-speed fiber-optic internet service offered by AT&T, providing gigabit broadband connectivity to residential and business customers in various regions across the United States.
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E.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ telecommunications company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Lumen Technologies
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Level 3 Communications
Qwest Communications International ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customerType |
business customers
ⓘ
enterprise customers ⓘ government customers ⓘ residential consumers ⓘ wholesale customers ⓘ |
| formerName |
CenturyLink
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CenturyLink ⓘ
surface form:
CenturyTel
|
| foundedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasBrand |
CenturyLink
ⓘ
surface form:
CenturyLink (legacy brand)
Lumen ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.lumen.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Monroe, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Monroe, Louisiana
|
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
cybersecurity ⓘ information technology services ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| networkType | fiber-optic network ⓘ |
| offersProduct |
DDoS mitigation services
ⓘ
IP transit ⓘ MPLS VPN ⓘ SD-WAN ⓘ colocation services ⓘ content delivery network services ⓘ data center services ⓘ managed security services ⓘ |
| owns | Level 3 Communications network assets ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf | Quantum Fiber ⓘ |
| service |
cloud services
ⓘ
edge computing services ⓘ internet services ⓘ managed services ⓘ networking services ⓘ security services ⓘ voice services ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tradedAs |
Lumen Technologies
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NYSE:LUMN
|
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: Lumen Technologies Description of subject: Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NYSE:LUMN
this entity surface form:
Level 3 Communications