LinkExchange
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LinkExchange was an early online advertising network and banner exchange service that became one of the first major dot-com successes before being acquired by Microsoft in 1998.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LinkExchange canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7088423 — 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: LinkExchange Context triple: [Tony Hsieh, founded, LinkExchange]
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A.
LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
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B.
Links Market
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C.
ELink
ELink is an NCBI E-utilities tool that retrieves and navigates links between related records across NCBI databases.
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D.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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E.
BobLinks
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- 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: LinkExchange Target entity description: LinkExchange was an early online advertising network and banner exchange service that became one of the first major dot-com successes before being acquired by Microsoft in 1998.
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A.
LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
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B.
Links Market
Links Market is a historic annual funfair held in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, known as one of Europe’s longest street fairs with a wide variety of rides, stalls, and attractions.
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C.
ELink
ELink is an NCBI E-utilities tool that retrieves and navigates links between related records across NCBI databases.
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D.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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E.
BobLinks
BobLinks is a fan-maintained online archive that compiles detailed information and setlists from Bob Dylan’s concerts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
banner exchange service
ⓘ
dot-com company ⓘ online advertising network ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquirerStock | Microsoft stock ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmount | 265000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | stock deal ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | dot-com bubble ⓘ |
| businessModel |
banner exchange
ⓘ
online advertising network ⓘ |
| coreFeature |
exchange of banner impressions between member sites
ⓘ
traffic generation for participating websites ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolved | early 2000s ⓘ |
| employeesCountAtAcquisition | approximately 100 ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Microsoft ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ali Partovi
ⓘ
Arash Ferdowsi ⓘ Sanjay Madan ⓘ Tony Hsieh ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | San Francisco ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ |
| notableEmployee | Tony Hsieh ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first major dot-com successes ⓘ |
| notableImpact | popularized banner exchange models on early web ⓘ |
| notableOutcome | provided capital for Tony Hsieh’s later ventures ⓘ |
| operatedDuringPeriod | dot-com boom ⓘ |
| operatingArea | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationAfterAcquisition | Microsoft ⓘ |
| productOrService |
banner ad exchange platform
ⓘ
online advertising services ⓘ |
| revenueModel |
display advertising
ⓘ
selling advertising inventory ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
online publishers
ⓘ
small websites ⓘ webmasters ⓘ |
| technologyDomain | web advertising ⓘ |
| websiteType |
ad network
ⓘ
banner exchange ⓘ |
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: LinkExchange Description of subject: LinkExchange was an early online advertising network and banner exchange service that became one of the first major dot-com successes before being acquired by Microsoft in 1998.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.