Square
E579498
Square is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale hardware that enable businesses to accept card payments easily.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Square canonical | 28 |
| Square Dashboard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6274362 — 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: Square Context triple: [Square, Inc., alsoKnownAs, Square]
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A.
Square D
Square D is a well-known American brand of electrical equipment and circuit protection products, particularly recognized for its circuit breakers, panelboards, and industrial control systems.
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B.
ctangle
ctangle is a CWEB tool that converts literate CWEB source files into compilable C code by extracting and tangling the program fragments.
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C.
Great Square
Great Square is the English name for Lille’s historic Grand-Place, the central public square and focal point of the city in northern France.
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D.
Oktogon
Oktogon is a major octagonal intersection and public square in central Budapest, Hungary, where Andrássy Avenue crosses the Grand Boulevard.
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E.
New Square
New Square is a historic legal courtyard and set of chambers associated with Lincoln’s Inn in central London.
- 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: Square Target entity description: Square is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale hardware that enable businesses to accept card payments easily.
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A.
Square D
Square D is a well-known American brand of electrical equipment and circuit protection products, particularly recognized for its circuit breakers, panelboards, and industrial control systems.
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B.
ctangle
ctangle is a CWEB tool that converts literate CWEB source files into compilable C code by extracting and tangling the program fragments.
-
C.
Great Square
Great Square is the English name for Lille’s historic Grand-Place, the central public square and focal point of the city in northern France.
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D.
Oktogon
Oktogon is a major octagonal intersection and public square in central Budapest, Hungary, where Andrássy Avenue crosses the Grand Boulevard.
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E.
New Square
New Square is a historic legal courtyard and set of chambers associated with Lincoln’s Inn in central London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial technology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| brandOf | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jim McKelvey ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentName | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| enables |
acceptance of credit card payments
ⓘ
acceptance of debit card payments ⓘ |
| formerName | Square, Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jim McKelvey ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
ⓘ
payments ⓘ point-of-sale systems ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integrated hardware and software point-of-sale system
ⓘ
simplifying card acceptance for small merchants ⓘ |
| offers |
business analytics tools
ⓘ
card payment processing ⓘ mobile payment solutions ⓘ online payment processing ⓘ point-of-sale hardware ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Japan ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| parentCompany | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| product |
Cash App
ⓘ
Square Capital ⓘ Square Invoices ⓘ Square Online ⓘ Square Payroll ⓘ Square Point of Sale app ⓘ
linked to:
Square Payroll
Square Reader ⓘ Square Register ⓘ Square Stand ⓘ Square Terminal ⓘ |
| supports |
chip card payments
ⓘ
contactless payments ⓘ magstripe card payments ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
restaurants
ⓘ
retail merchants ⓘ service providers ⓘ small businesses ⓘ |
| tradesAs | NYSE:SQ ⓘ |
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: Square Description of subject: Square is a financial technology company best known for its mobile payment solutions and point-of-sale hardware that enable businesses to accept card payments easily.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.