Startup.com
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Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the rise and fall of the dot-com startup GovWorks during the late-1990s internet boom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Startup.com canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4584332 — 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: Startup.com Context triple: [Pennebaker Hegedus Films, notableWork, Startup.com]
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A.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator known for funding and mentoring early-stage technology companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.
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B.
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator is a leading startup accelerator and incubator at the University of California, Berkeley that supports early-stage companies with mentorship, resources, and access to investors.
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C.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a crime drama television series that follows a group of unlikely partners who launch a controversial digital currency startup amid the dangerous world of organized crime and corrupt law enforcement.
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D.
Start-Up Ventures Clinic
Start-Up Ventures Clinic is a Duke University School of Law legal clinic where law students provide supervised legal services to early-stage entrepreneurs and startup companies.
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E.
FedBizOpps
FedBizOpps (Federal Business Opportunities) was the U.S. government’s primary online portal for posting and viewing federal procurement opportunities and contract solicitations.
- 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: Startup.com Target entity description: Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the rise and fall of the dot-com startup GovWorks during the late-1990s internet boom.
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A.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator known for funding and mentoring early-stage technology companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.
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B.
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator is a leading startup accelerator and incubator at the University of California, Berkeley that supports early-stage companies with mentorship, resources, and access to investors.
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C.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a crime drama television series that follows a group of unlikely partners who launch a controversial digital currency startup amid the dangerous world of organized crime and corrupt law enforcement.
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D.
Start-Up Ventures Clinic
Start-Up Ventures Clinic is a Duke University School of Law legal clinic where law students provide supervised legal services to early-stage entrepreneurs and startup companies.
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E.
FedBizOpps
FedBizOpps (Federal Business Opportunities) was the U.S. government’s primary online portal for posting and viewing federal procurement opportunities and contract solicitations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
documentary film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
Chris Hegedus
ⓘ
Jehane Noujaim ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
fall of GovWorks
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late-1990s internet boom ⓘ rise of GovWorks ⓘ |
| director |
Chris Hegedus
ⓘ
Jehane Noujaim ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Chris Hegedus
ⓘ
Earle Sebastian ⓘ Jehane Noujaim ⓘ |
| featuresCompany | GovWorks ⓘ |
| focusesOn | online government services portal ⓘ |
| follows |
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman
ⓘ
Tom Herman ⓘ |
| genre |
business documentary
ⓘ
documentary ⓘ technology documentary ⓘ |
| hasSubjectCategory |
American documentary films
ⓘ
films about business ⓘ films about the Internet ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | film ⓘ |
| portrays |
conflicts among founders
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friendship between co-founders ⓘ impact of the dot-com crash ⓘ startup culture ⓘ venture capital fundraising ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Hegedus
ⓘ
D. A. Pennebaker ⓘ Jehane Noujaim ⓘ R. J. Cutler ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | post-dot-com bubble era ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 107 minutes ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Sundance Film Festival ⓘ |
| settingPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| settingTime |
early 2000s
ⓘ
late 1990s ⓘ |
| subject |
GovWorks
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dot-com bubble ⓘ entrepreneurship ⓘ internet startups ⓘ |
| theme |
impact of money on relationships
ⓘ
intersection of politics and technology ⓘ risk and failure in startups ⓘ |
| title | Startup.com ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Startup.com Description of subject: Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the rise and fall of the dot-com startup GovWorks during the late-1990s internet boom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.