Fieldlink
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Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fieldlink canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1176479 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fieldlink Context triple: [Max Levchin, coFounded, Fieldlink]
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Westbindung
Westbindung was the postwar West German strategy of firmly integrating the country into Western political, economic, and military alliances, especially with the United States and Western Europe.
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Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
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MobilityLink
MobilityLink is the Maryland Transit Administration’s specialized paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities who cannot use fixed-route transit.
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United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- 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: Fieldlink Target entity description: Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
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A.
Westbindung
Westbindung was the postwar West German strategy of firmly integrating the country into Western political, economic, and military alliances, especially with the United States and Western Europe.
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B.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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C.
LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
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D.
MobilityLink
MobilityLink is the Maryland Transit Administration’s specialized paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities who cannot use fixed-route transit.
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E.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial technology company
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startup company ⓘ |
| associatedWithBrandThatBecame | PayPal ⓘ |
| businessModel | digital payments platform ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| focus |
enabling electronic payments
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security for digital transactions ⓘ |
| historicalRole | early digital payments and security startup that evolved into the company behind PayPal ⓘ |
| industry |
digital payments
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online security ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| laterEvolvedInto | Confinity ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an early precursor to PayPal ⓘ |
| operatedInSector |
internet security
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online payments ⓘ |
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: Fieldlink Description of subject: Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.