i-mode
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i-mode was NTT DoCoMo’s pioneering mobile internet service platform that enabled web browsing, email, and downloadable content on cell phones in Japan starting in the late 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| i-mode canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5479713 — 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: i-mode Context triple: [NTT DoCoMo, serviceBrand, i-mode]
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A.
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile is a mobile web browser developed by Opera Software, known for its speed, data compression, and support for advanced web standards on smartphones and tablets.
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B.
WAP
"WAP" is a 2020 hip hop single by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, widely known for its explicit lyrics, viral popularity, and cultural impact.
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C.
SIM
SIM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, a major UK museum dedicated to the history and impact of science, technology, and industry.
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D.
Nokki
Nokki is one of the four snow owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
MiMo
MiMo is a distinctive post-World War II Miami Modernist architectural style characterized by playful curves, glass, and futuristic motifs, especially prominent in Miami Beach.
- 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: i-mode Target entity description: i-mode was NTT DoCoMo’s pioneering mobile internet service platform that enabled web browsing, email, and downloadable content on cell phones in Japan starting in the late 1990s.
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A.
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile is a mobile web browser developed by Opera Software, known for its speed, data compression, and support for advanced web standards on smartphones and tablets.
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B.
WAP
"WAP" is a 2020 hip hop single by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, widely known for its explicit lyrics, viral popularity, and cultural impact.
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C.
SIM
SIM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, a major UK museum dedicated to the history and impact of science, technology, and industry.
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D.
Nokki
Nokki is one of the four snow owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
MiMo
MiMo is a distinctive post-World War II Miami Modernist architectural style characterized by playful curves, glass, and futuristic motifs, especially prominent in Miami Beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mobile internet service
ⓘ
mobile web platform ⓘ |
| billingModel | packet-based billing ⓘ |
| commercialLaunchDate | 1999-02-22 ⓘ |
| contentMarkupLanguage | cHTML ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| declineCause |
competition from full HTML browsers
ⓘ
rise of smartphones ⓘ |
| developer | NTT DoCoMo ⓘ |
| enables |
downloadable content
ⓘ
mobile email ⓘ mobile web browsing ⓘ |
| expandedToCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Belgium ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Israel ⓘ Italy ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Spain ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| feature |
always-on connectivity
ⓘ
home screen portal menu ⓘ integrated carrier billing ⓘ micro-transaction support ⓘ official content provider program ⓘ |
| inception | 1999 ⓘ |
| inspired |
early smartphone data services
ⓘ
later mobile internet services ⓘ |
| networkTechnology |
2G
ⓘ
3G ⓘ PDC ⓘ |
| offeredService |
banking services
ⓘ
games ⓘ news services ⓘ ringtone downloads ⓘ ticketing services ⓘ weather information ⓘ |
| operatingArea | Japan ⓘ |
| operator | NTT DoCoMo ⓘ |
| parentCompany | NTT ⓘ |
| peakUserBase | over 50 million subscribers ⓘ |
| providedBy | NTT DoCoMo ⓘ |
| serviceEndDate | 2020-03-31 ⓘ |
| serviceModel | walled garden ⓘ |
| serviceTerminationAnnouncement | 2019 ⓘ |
| supportedDeviceType | cell phone ⓘ |
| targetLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| usesProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
TCP/IP ⓘ |
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: i-mode Description of subject: i-mode was NTT DoCoMo’s pioneering mobile internet service platform that enabled web browsing, email, and downloadable content on cell phones in Japan starting in the late 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.