Yahoo! BB
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Yahoo! BB was a Japanese broadband internet and VoIP service brand operated by SoftBank, widely known for helping popularize high-speed internet access in Japan in the early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yahoo! BB canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8906172 — 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: Yahoo! BB Context triple: [Yahoo! BB Stadium, namedAfter, Yahoo! BB]
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A.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
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B.
Yahoo! Screen
Yahoo! Screen was Yahoo's now-defunct online video streaming platform that hosted original series, licensed shows, and other digital video content.
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C.
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization)
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization) is the digital media and online services company formed under Verizon’s ownership that consolidated the former Yahoo and AOL internet brands into a single corporate entity.
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D.
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
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E.
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer platform where users could ask questions and receive answers from other users across a wide range of topics.
- 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: Yahoo! BB Target entity description: Yahoo! BB was a Japanese broadband internet and VoIP service brand operated by SoftBank, widely known for helping popularize high-speed internet access in Japan in the early 2000s.
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A.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a pioneering web services company best known for its web portal, search engine, email service, and online media offerings.
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B.
Yahoo! Screen
Yahoo! Screen was Yahoo's now-defunct online video streaming platform that hosted original series, licensed shows, and other digital video content.
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C.
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization)
Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization) is the digital media and online services company formed under Verizon’s ownership that consolidated the former Yahoo and AOL internet brands into a single corporate entity.
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D.
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
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E.
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer platform where users could ask questions and receive answers from other users across a wide range of topics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
VoIP service
ⓘ
brand ⓘ broadband internet service ⓘ |
| brandAssociation |
Yahoo! Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo! Japan Corporation
|
| brandOf |
SoftBank broadband services
ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
| brandOwner |
SoftBank Corp.
ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
| bundle |
internet and VoIP package
ⓘ
internet and Yahoo! Japan services ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription-based service ⓘ |
| competitor |
NTT Flets ADSL
ⓘ
linked to:
NTT
au one net ⓘ |
| connectionMedium | telephone line ⓘ |
| connectionType | fixed-line broadband ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerOperator |
SoftBank Corp.
ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
| geographicFocus | domestic Japanese market ⓘ |
| industry |
internet service provision
ⓘ
telecommunications ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| launchPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| market |
consumer internet access
ⓘ
residential broadband ⓘ |
| networkType | last-mile copper access ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive flat-rate pricing
ⓘ
mass-market ADSL adoption ⓘ popularizing high-speed internet access in Japan ⓘ |
| offered |
Wi-Fi router options
ⓘ
bundled VoIP service ⓘ email accounts ⓘ flat-rate internet plans ⓘ modem rental ⓘ web hosting options ⓘ |
| operator |
SoftBank
ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
| parentCompany | SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| pricingModel | flat-rate unlimited data ⓘ |
| regionServed | Japan ⓘ |
| serviceCategory | retail ISP ⓘ |
| serviceType |
ADSL
ⓘ
broadband internet access ⓘ fixed-line telephony ⓘ voice over IP ⓘ |
| status | largely superseded by fiber services ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
households in Japan
ⓘ
small offices and home offices ⓘ |
| technology | ADSL over copper telephone lines ⓘ |
| transitionedTo |
SoftBank Hikari
ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
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: Yahoo! BB Description of subject: Yahoo! BB was a Japanese broadband internet and VoIP service brand operated by SoftBank, widely known for helping popularize high-speed internet access in Japan in the early 2000s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.