Loopt
E137731
Loopt was an early location-based social networking mobile app startup that allowed users to share their real-time location with friends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Loopt canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1203244 — 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: Loopt Context triple: [Sam Altman, coFounded, Loopt]
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A.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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B.
Loop
Loop is a Microsoft 365 collaborative workspace app that lets teams create, share, and co-edit dynamic content blocks in real time across Microsoft’s productivity tools.
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C.
Loop
The Loop is Chicago’s central business district and downtown core, known for its dense cluster of skyscrapers, cultural institutions, and historic elevated train system.
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D.
Looper
Looper is a 2012 science-fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson, known for its time-travel premise and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis.
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E.
Loscutoff
Loscutoff is the surname of former Boston Celtics forward Jim Loscutoff, whose number 18 was retired by the team in his honor.
- 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: Loopt Target entity description: Loopt was an early location-based social networking mobile app startup that allowed users to share their real-time location with friends.
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A.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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B.
Loop
Loop is a Microsoft 365 collaborative workspace app that lets teams create, share, and co-edit dynamic content blocks in real time across Microsoft’s productivity tools.
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C.
Loop
The Loop is Chicago’s central business district and downtown core, known for its dense cluster of skyscrapers, cultural institutions, and historic elevated train system.
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D.
Looper
Looper is a 2012 science-fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson, known for its time-travel premise and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis.
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E.
Loscutoff
Loscutoff is the surname of former Boston Celtics forward Jim Loscutoff, whose number 18 was retired by the team in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
ⓘ
location-based social networking service ⓘ mobile application ⓘ startup company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Green Dot Corporation ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-03-28 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 43000000 USD ⓘ |
| availableOn |
AT&T Mobility
ⓘ
linked to:
AT&T
Sprint ⓘ
linked to:
Sprint Corporation
Verizon Wireless ⓘ
linked to:
Verizon
|
| businessModel |
ad-supported
ⓘ
subscription-based premium features ⓘ |
| competitor |
Brightkite
ⓘ
Foursquare ⓘ Google Latitude ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Alok Deshpande
ⓘ
Nick Sivo ⓘ Sam Altman ⓘ Sam Altman, Alok Deshpande, and Nick Sivo while students at Stanford University ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
New Enterprise Associates
ⓘ
Sequoia Capital ⓘ Y Combinator ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
check-ins
ⓘ
friend location alerts ⓘ location history ⓘ location-based messaging ⓘ nearby friends discovery ⓘ place recommendations ⓘ privacy controls for location sharing ⓘ real-time location sharing ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
|
| inception | 2005 ⓘ |
| industry |
location-based services
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the earliest mainstream location-based social apps
ⓘ
early example of mobile real-time friend tracking ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
BlackBerry OS ⓘ Windows Mobile ⓘ feature phones ⓘ iOS ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Y Combinator Winter 2005 batch
ⓘ
linked to:
Y Combinator
|
| platform | mobile ⓘ |
| serviceEndDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
college students
ⓘ
consumers ⓘ |
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: Loopt Description of subject: Loopt was an early location-based social networking mobile app startup that allowed users to share their real-time location with friends.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.