Bing
E56719
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bing canonical | 15 |
| Microsoft Bing | 4 |
| Bing Images | 1 |
| Bing News | 1 |
| Bing Search APIs | 1 |
| Bing Shopping | 1 |
| Bing Smart Search | 1 |
| Bing Videos | 1 |
| Bing search engine | 1 |
| Live Search | 1 |
| MSN Search | 1 |
| Microsoft Search Network | 1 |
| Windows Live Search | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T452279 — 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: Bing Context triple: [Microsoft Edge, integratedWith, Bing]
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A.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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B.
AltaVista
AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
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C.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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D.
Alexa
Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based virtual assistant that uses voice interaction to control smart devices, answer questions, and perform a variety of digital tasks.
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E.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
- 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: Bing Target entity description: Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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A.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
-
B.
AltaVista
AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
-
C.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
-
D.
Alexa
Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based virtual assistant that uses voice interaction to control smart devices, answer questions, and perform a variety of digital tasks.
-
E.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online service
ⓘ
web search engine ⓘ |
| availableIn |
multiple countries
ⓘ
multiple languages ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| hasSubService |
Bing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bing Images
Bing Maps ⓘ Bing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Bing News
Bing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Bing Shopping
Bing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Bing Videos
|
| integratedWith |
Cortana (historically)
ⓘ
surface form:
Cortana
Microsoft 365 ⓘ Microsoft Edge ⓘ Windows ⓘ Xbox ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2009-06-03 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| owner | Microsoft ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Microsoft
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Corporation
|
| predecessor |
Bing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Live Search
Bing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MSN Search
Bing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Live Search
|
| primaryRevenueModel | online advertising ⓘ |
| providesService |
image search
ⓘ
local business search ⓘ map services ⓘ news search ⓘ shopping search ⓘ translation services ⓘ video search ⓘ weather information ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| registration | optional ⓘ |
| searchResultsType |
algorithmic results
ⓘ
paid search ads ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
autocomplete
ⓘ
directions and routing ⓘ image filters ⓘ integration with Microsoft Rewards ⓘ maps with aerial imagery ⓘ personalized results ⓘ safe search filtering ⓘ search history ⓘ search suggestions ⓘ spell checking ⓘ street-side imagery ⓘ video preview ⓘ voice search ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
mobile apps
ⓘ
mobile web ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bing.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: Bing Description of subject: Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Microsoft Edge
this entity surface form:
Bing Smart Search
this entity surface form:
Live Search
this entity surface form:
MSN Search
this entity surface form:
Windows Live Search
this entity surface form:
Bing Images
this entity surface form:
Bing Videos
this entity surface form:
Bing News
this entity surface form:
Bing Shopping
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Bing
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Bing
subject surface form:
Cortana
this entity surface form:
Bing Search APIs
subject surface form:
Windows Live
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Bing
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Search Network