Jelly
E142090
Jelly is a now-defunct Q&A and search app that let users get answers by sending questions, often with images, to a network of people.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jelly canonical | 4 |
| Jelly mobile app | 3 |
| Jelly (Q&A app) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1245273 — 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: Jelly Context triple: [Biz Stone, coFounded, Jelly]
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A.
Jelly's Last Jam
Jelly's Last Jam is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the life and legacy of jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton through music, dance, and storytelling.
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B.
Malvids
Malvids are a major clade of flowering plants within the rosids that includes economically important families such as Brassicaceae (mustards) and Malvaceae (mallows).
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C.
Gumm
Gumm is the birth surname of American actress and singer Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm.
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D.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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E.
Juicy Fruit
Juicy Fruit is a long-running fruit-flavored chewing gum brand produced by Wrigley, known for its distinctive sweet taste and bright yellow packaging.
- 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: Jelly Target entity description: Jelly is a now-defunct Q&A and search app that let users get answers by sending questions, often with images, to a network of people.
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A.
Jelly's Last Jam
Jelly's Last Jam is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the life and legacy of jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton through music, dance, and storytelling.
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B.
Malvids
Malvids are a major clade of flowering plants within the rosids that includes economically important families such as Brassicaceae (mustards) and Malvaceae (mallows).
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C.
Gumm
Gumm is the birth surname of American actress and singer Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm.
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D.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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E.
Juicy Fruit
Juicy Fruit is a long-running fruit-flavored chewing gum brand produced by Wrigley, known for its distinctive sweet taste and bright yellow packaging.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Q&A platform
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mobile application ⓘ search app ⓘ startup company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Pinterest ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017-03 ⓘ |
| aim | to use people in your network as a search engine ⓘ |
| allowsUserGeneratedContent | true ⓘ |
| businessModel | venture-backed startup ⓘ |
| communicationChannel |
mobile app
ⓘ
web ⓘ |
| companyName | Jelly Industries, Inc. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creatorPreviousAffiliation |
Twitter
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linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| dataSource | social networks of users ⓘ |
| developer | Jelly Industries, Inc. ⓘ |
| dissolutionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| founder |
Ben Finkel
ⓘ
Biz Stone ⓘ |
| genre |
question-and-answer service
ⓘ
social search ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | Let’s help each other ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| inception | 2013 ⓘ |
| interactionModel | people-powered search ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2014-01 ⓘ |
| logoAltText | Jelly app logo ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
answers came from people rather than web pages
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users could send questions with photos to their network ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
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iOS ⓘ |
| primaryInput |
image-based questions
ⓘ
text questions ⓘ |
| primaryOutput | crowdsourced answers ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | acquisition by Pinterest ⓘ |
| serviceType | online service ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| supportsMediaType |
images
ⓘ
text ⓘ |
| targetAudience | mobile users seeking crowdsourced answers ⓘ |
| userAction |
answer questions
ⓘ
ask questions ⓘ share questions with contacts ⓘ |
| website | https://jelly.co ⓘ |
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: Jelly Description of subject: Jelly is a now-defunct Q&A and search app that let users get answers by sending questions, often with images, to a network of people.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.