Yahoo! Answers
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Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer platform where users could ask questions and receive answers from other users across a wide range of topics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yahoo Answers | 1 |
| Yahoo! Answers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425526 — 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: Yahoo! Answers Context triple: [Yahoo! Search, integratedWith, Yahoo! Answers]
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A.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
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B.
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
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C.
The Answers
The Answers is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, showcasing their early emotionally driven and melodic rock sound.
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D.
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
Ask Jeeves was an early web search engine brand best known for its question‑and‑answer style interface featuring a virtual butler character.
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E.
Yahoo! Screen
Yahoo! Screen was Yahoo's now-defunct online video streaming platform that hosted original series, licensed shows, and other digital video content.
- 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: Yahoo! Answers Target entity description: Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer platform where users could ask questions and receive answers from other users across a wide range of topics.
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A.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
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B.
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
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C.
The Answers
The Answers is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, showcasing their early emotionally driven and melodic rock sound.
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D.
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
Ask Jeeves was an early web search engine brand best known for its question‑and‑answer style interface featuring a virtual butler character.
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E.
Yahoo! Screen
Yahoo! Screen was Yahoo's now-defunct online video streaming platform that hosted original series, licensed shows, and other digital video content.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (84)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
knowledge market
ⓘ
online community ⓘ question-and-answer website ⓘ |
| accessModel | free to use ⓘ |
| allows |
users to ask questions
ⓘ
users to submit answers ⓘ users to vote on best answers ⓘ |
| announcementOfShutdownDate | 2021-04-05 ⓘ |
| archivedBy | Internet Archive (partially) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Answers.com
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ask.com NERFINISHED ⓘ Quora NERFINISHED ⓘ Stack Overflow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentLicense | user-generated content under Yahoo! terms of service ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Yahoo! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discontinuationDate | 2021-05-04 ⓘ |
| feature |
best answer selection
ⓘ
categories and subcategories ⓘ community moderation ⓘ levels system ⓘ points system ⓘ report abuse function ⓘ star ratings (historically) ⓘ user profiles ⓘ |
| genre |
Q&A
ⓘ
knowledge exchange ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Arts & Humanities
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Business & Finance ⓘ Cars & Transportation ⓘ Computers & Internet ⓘ Education & Reference ⓘ Entertainment & Music ⓘ Environment ⓘ Family & Relationships ⓘ Food & Drink ⓘ Games & Recreation ⓘ Health ⓘ Home & Garden ⓘ Local Businesses ⓘ News & Events NERFINISHED ⓘ Pets ⓘ Politics & Government ⓘ Science & Mathematics ⓘ Society & Culture ⓘ Sports ⓘ Travel ⓘ Yahoo! Products NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2005-12-08 ⓘ |
| logo | Yahoo! Answers logo.svg ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the earliest large-scale Q&A communities
ⓘ
low-quality and humorous questions ⓘ user-generated questions and answers ⓘ |
| operator |
Yahoo!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yahoo! Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Oath Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Verizon Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ Verizon Media NERFINISHED ⓘ Yahoo! Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Yahoo! Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformType | web-based service ⓘ |
| publicBetaStartDate | 2005-12-08 ⓘ |
| reasonForShutdown |
declining usage
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decrease in popularity ⓘ strategic focus shift by Yahoo! ⓘ |
| registration |
required to answer questions
ⓘ
required to ask questions ⓘ |
| shutdownDate | 2021-05-04 ⓘ |
| slogan |
Ask questions on any topic, get real answers from real people
ⓘ
Ask. Answer. Discover. ⓘ |
| successor | none official ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://answers.yahoo.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: Yahoo! Answers Description of subject: Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer platform where users could ask questions and receive answers from other users across a wide range of topics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.