Lycos
E96745
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lycos canonical | 16 |
| Lycos search engine | 2 |
| Go.com | 1 |
| Lycos Network | 1 |
| Lycos network | 1 |
| Lycos, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805302 — 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: Lycos Context triple: [AltaVista, competitor, Lycos]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Cox Internet
Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
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E.
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.
- 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: Lycos Target entity description: Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Cox Internet
Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet company
ⓘ
web portal ⓘ web search engine ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Terra Networks ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2000 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | about $12.5 billion ⓘ |
| basedOn | research at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| competitor |
AltaVista
ⓘ
Excite ⓘ Infoseek ⓘ Yahoo! ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
|
| era | dot-com boom ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Michael Loren Mauldin ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
multiple languages ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Angelfire
ⓘ
Gamesville ⓘ HotBot ⓘ Tripod.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Waltham, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| inception | 1994 ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| laterOwner |
Daum Communications
ⓘ
Ybrant Digital ⓘ |
| launched | 1994 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a major web portal in the 1990s
ⓘ
being one of the earliest web search engines ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | search engine for the World Wide Web ⓘ |
| peakPopularity | late 1990s ⓘ |
| service |
email
ⓘ
entertainment content ⓘ instant messaging ⓘ news ⓘ online communities ⓘ shopping directory ⓘ web hosting ⓘ web portal ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| status | still operational as a portal with reduced prominence ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general internet users ⓘ |
| technologyType |
search index
ⓘ
web crawler ⓘ |
| website | https://www.lycos.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: Lycos Description of subject: Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lycos
subject linked to:
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
linked to: Lycos
linked to: Lycos
linked to: Lycos
linked to: Lycos