Ludicorp
E703155
Ludicorp was a Canadian software company best known for creating the photo-sharing service Flickr before being acquired by Yahoo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ludicorp canonical | 4 |
| Ludicorp Research & Development | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977097 — 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: Ludicorp Context triple: [Stewart Butterfield, coFounded, Ludicorp]
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A.
Creatures Inc.
Creatures Inc. is a Japanese video game development company best known for its key role in creating and managing the Pokémon franchise’s games, cards, and related media.
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B.
Kopelson Entertainment
Kopelson Entertainment is a film and television production company best known for producing high-profile Hollywood action and thriller movies.
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C.
Wolf Entertainment
Wolf Entertainment is an American television production company founded by producer Dick Wolf, best known for creating and overseeing the long-running Law & Order and Chicago franchise series.
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D.
Chameleon Entertainment
Chameleon Entertainment is a music record label known for producing and distributing recordings for various artists across genres.
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E.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
- 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: Ludicorp Target entity description: Ludicorp was a Canadian software company best known for creating the photo-sharing service Flickr before being acquired by Yahoo.
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A.
Creatures Inc.
Creatures Inc. is a Japanese video game development company best known for its key role in creating and managing the Pokémon franchise’s games, cards, and related media.
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B.
Kopelson Entertainment
Kopelson Entertainment is a film and television production company best known for producing high-profile Hollywood action and thriller movies.
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C.
Wolf Entertainment
Wolf Entertainment is an American television production company founded by producer Dick Wolf, best known for creating and overseeing the long-running Law & Order and Chicago franchise series.
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D.
Chameleon Entertainment
Chameleon Entertainment is a music record label known for producing and distributing recordings for various artists across genres.
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E.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Yahoo!
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| acquisitionTarget | Flickr ⓘ |
| businessModel | web-based services ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| focus |
online photo sharing
ⓘ
social software ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Ludicorp Research & Development
ⓘ
linked to:
Ludicorp
|
| foundedBy |
Caterina Fake
ⓘ
Jason Classon ⓘ Stewart Butterfield ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating Flickr ⓘ |
| locationCity | Vancouver ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| notableWork | Flickr ⓘ |
| operated | Flickr ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition |
Yahoo!
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| product | Flickr ⓘ |
| reasonForStatus | acquired by Yahoo! ⓘ |
| serviceType |
photo-sharing platform
ⓘ
web application ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Ludicorp Description of subject: Ludicorp was a Canadian software company best known for creating the photo-sharing service Flickr before being acquired by Yahoo.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.