Infoseek
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Infoseek was an early web search engine and internet portal that gained prominence in the mid-1990s before being acquired and integrated into Disney’s online properties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Infoseek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805304 — 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: Infoseek Context triple: [AltaVista, competitor, Infoseek]
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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.
Lycos
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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C.
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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D.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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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: Infoseek Target entity description: Infoseek was an early web search engine and internet portal that gained prominence in the mid-1990s before being acquired and integrated into Disney’s online properties.
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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.
Lycos
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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C.
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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D.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
internet portal
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ web search engine ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Disney
ⓘ
The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
late 1990s
ⓘ
mid-1990s ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct internet search engines
ⓘ
Defunct websites ⓘ Disney acquisitions ⓘ |
| competitor |
AltaVista
ⓘ
Excite ⓘ Lycos ⓘ Yahoo ⓘ
surface form:
Yahoo!
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfAcquisition | 1998 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Steve Kirsch ⓘ |
| hasFounder | Steve Kirsch ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Steve Kirsch ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Sunnyvale, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1994 ⓘ |
| industry |
the internet
ⓘ
surface form:
Internet
online advertising ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Lycos
ⓘ
surface form:
Go.com
|
| notableFor |
being integrated into Disney’s online properties
ⓘ
being one of the earliest popular web search engines ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | web-based ⓘ |
| ownedBy | The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Disney
ⓘ
The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| partOf | Go.com ⓘ |
| peakPopularity | 1990s ⓘ |
| productType |
search engine
ⓘ
web portal ⓘ |
| providedService |
email services
ⓘ
news portal ⓘ online advertising ⓘ web directory ⓘ web search ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | integration into Go.com ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| website | http://www.infoseek.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: Infoseek Description of subject: Infoseek was an early web search engine and internet portal that gained prominence in the mid-1990s before being acquired and integrated into Disney’s online properties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.