DuckDuckGo
E127271
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that emphasizes not tracking users or personalizing search results based on their data.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DuckDuckGo canonical | 11 |
| DuckDuckGo search engine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1096868 — 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: DuckDuckGo Context triple: [Apple Safari, supportsSearchEngine, DuckDuckGo]
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A.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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B.
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.
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C.
Infoseek
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: DuckDuckGo Target entity description: DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that emphasizes not tracking users or personalizing search results based on their data.
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A.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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B.
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.
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C.
Infoseek
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
privacy-focused search engine ⓘ technology company ⓘ web search engine ⓘ |
| availableInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
multiple languages ⓘ |
| businessModel |
advertising
ⓘ
affiliate marketing ⓘ |
| collects | minimal personal information ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Bing
ⓘ
Google Search ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| doesNotTrack |
IP addresses by default
ⓘ
user search history ⓘ |
| doesNotUse | behavioral ad targeting based on personal profiles ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
not personalizing search results based on personal data
ⓘ
not tracking users ⓘ user privacy ⓘ |
| focusesOn | privacy as a competitive differentiator ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Gabriel Weinberg ⓘ |
| founder | Gabriel Weinberg ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bang syntax for site-specific searches
ⓘ
enforced encryption in apps and extensions ⓘ instant answers ⓘ tracker blocking in apps and extensions ⓘ |
| hasMobileAppOn |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Paoli, Pennsylvania
|
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| industry |
internet search
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| logoCharacter | a duck ⓘ |
| name | DuckDuckGo ⓘ |
| offers |
browser extensions
ⓘ
mobile apps ⓘ privacy-focused web browser ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| searchResultsSource |
Bing
ⓘ
its own crawler ⓘ other partners ⓘ |
| slogan | Privacy, simplified. ⓘ |
| stores | no persistent personal search profiles ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol | HTTPS ⓘ |
| typeOfAdvertising | keyword-based ads not tied to user profiles ⓘ |
| website | https://duckduckgo.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: DuckDuckGo Description of subject: DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that emphasizes not tracking users or personalizing search results based on their data.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.