Ask
E532024
Ask was a rebranded version of the Ask Jeeves web search engine, offering general internet search services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ask canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557748 — 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: Ask Context triple: [Ask Jeeves, hasShortName, Ask]
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A.
Ask
Ask is a small village located in the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway.
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B.
Askival
Askival is the prominent mountain peak that dominates the rugged landscape of the Isle of Rum in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
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C.
Q
Q is a powerful, omnipotent trickster from the Q Continuum who frequently tests and torments the crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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D.
Q
Q is a recurring comedic character from the James Bond film series, known as the eccentric head of MI6's gadget and technology division.
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E.
Q
The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
- 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: Ask Target entity description: Ask was a rebranded version of the Ask Jeeves web search engine, offering general internet search services.
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A.
Ask
Ask is a small village located in the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway.
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B.
Askival
Askival is the prominent mountain peak that dominates the rugged landscape of the Isle of Rum in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
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C.
Q
Q is a powerful, omnipotent trickster from the Q Continuum who frequently tests and torments the crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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D.
Q
Q is a recurring comedic character from the James Bond film series, known as the eccentric head of MI6's gadget and technology division.
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E.
Q
The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | web search engine ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| brandingChange | removal of Jeeves butler character ⓘ |
| businessModel | online advertising ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataTypeSearched |
images
ⓘ
news articles ⓘ videos ⓘ web pages ⓘ |
| developer |
Ask Jeeves, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
|
| focus |
answering user questions
ⓘ
general internet search ⓘ |
| formerName |
Ask Jeeves
ⓘ
linked to:
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
|
| hasButlerMascot | false ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
American websites
ⓘ
Question answering websites ⓘ Search engine websites ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Bing
ⓘ
Google Search ⓘ Yahoo! Search ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
image search
ⓘ
natural language query processing ⓘ news search ⓘ sponsored search advertising ⓘ video search ⓘ web search results ⓘ |
| hasSearchResultsSource | Ask web index ⓘ |
| logoFeature | wordmark "ask" in a speech bubble (various designs over time) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
question-style search interface
ⓘ
rebranding from Ask Jeeves ⓘ |
| operatedBy | IAC ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Ask Jeeves brand ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
IAC Search & Media
ⓘ
linked to:
IAC
|
| platform |
mobile web
ⓘ
web ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| serviceType |
general web search
ⓘ
question answering search ⓘ |
| supportsInputFormat |
keyword queries
ⓘ
natural language questions ⓘ |
| supportsRegion |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| targetUser | general internet users ⓘ |
| websiteURL | https://www.ask.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: Ask Description of subject: Ask was a rebranded version of the Ask Jeeves web search engine, offering general internet search services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)