Block, Inc.
E140619
Block, Inc. is a U.S.-based financial technology company best known for its Square payment platform and Cash App services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Block, Inc. canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1232238 — 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: Block, Inc. Context triple: [Jack Dorsey, founded, Block, Inc.]
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A.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
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B.
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.
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C.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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D.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a major U.S. privately held media, communications, and automotive services conglomerate.
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E.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
- 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: Block, Inc. Target entity description: Block, Inc. is a U.S.-based financial technology company best known for its Square payment platform and Cash App services.
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A.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
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B.
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.
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C.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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D.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a major U.S. privately held media, communications, and automotive services conglomerate.
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E.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Financial technology company
ⓘ
Public company ⓘ Technology company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Afterpay Limited
ⓘ
TIDAL ⓘ Weebly ⓘ |
| CEO | Jack Dorsey ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jim McKelvey ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName | Square, Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jim McKelvey ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Afterpay
ⓘ
linked to:
Affirm
Cash App ⓘ Square ⓘ TIDAL ⓘ Weebly ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| industry |
Financial technology
ⓘ
Payments ⓘ Point-of-sale systems ⓘ Software ⓘ |
| mainBusiness |
Buy now, pay later financing
ⓘ
Merchant services ⓘ Mobile payments ⓘ Music streaming services ⓘ Payment processing services ⓘ Peer-to-peer payments ⓘ Point-of-sale hardware and software ⓘ |
| notableService |
Cash App
ⓘ
Square payment platform ⓘ |
| product |
Afterpay buy now, pay later service
ⓘ
linked to:
Afterpay Limited
Cash App ⓘ Cash App Card ⓘ Square Capital ⓘ Square Invoices ⓘ Square Online ⓘ Square Payroll ⓘ Square Reader ⓘ Square Register ⓘ Square Stand ⓘ Square Terminal ⓘ Square point-of-sale system ⓘ TIDAL music streaming service ⓘ
linked to:
TIDAL
|
| rebrandedAs | Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| rebrandingDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | SQ ⓘ |
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: Block, Inc. Description of subject: Block, Inc. is a U.S.-based financial technology company best known for its Square payment platform and Cash App services.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.