Red Swoosh
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Red Swoosh was a peer-to-peer content delivery and file-sharing startup later acquired by Akamai Technologies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Swoosh canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481979 — 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: Red Swoosh Context triple: [Travis Kalanick, coFounded, Red Swoosh]
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A.
Swoosh
Swoosh is the iconic curved checkmark symbol that serves as the primary brand logo of Nike, representing speed, motion, and athletic performance.
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B.
RAF roundel
The RAF roundel is the distinctive circular insignia featuring concentric colored rings used to identify aircraft and equipment of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force.
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C.
Swiss roundel
The Swiss roundel is the distinctive national insignia featuring a white cross on a red circular background used to mark Swiss military aircraft and other official equipment.
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D.
RCAF roundel
The RCAF roundel is the distinctive circular insignia featuring a red maple leaf used to mark and identify Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.
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E.
Eagle, Globe, and Anchor
The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is the iconic emblem of the United States Marine Corps, symbolizing its global reach, naval heritage, and commitment to defending the nation.
- 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: Red Swoosh Target entity description: Red Swoosh was a peer-to-peer content delivery and file-sharing startup later acquired by Akamai Technologies.
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A.
Swoosh
Swoosh is the iconic curved checkmark symbol that serves as the primary brand logo of Nike, representing speed, motion, and athletic performance.
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B.
RAF roundel
The RAF roundel is the distinctive circular insignia featuring concentric colored rings used to identify aircraft and equipment of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force.
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C.
Swiss roundel
The Swiss roundel is the distinctive national insignia featuring a white cross on a red circular background used to mark Swiss military aircraft and other official equipment.
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D.
RCAF roundel
The RCAF roundel is the distinctive circular insignia featuring a red maple leaf used to mark and identify Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.
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E.
Eagle, Globe, and Anchor
The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is the iconic emblem of the United States Marine Corps, symbolizing its global reach, naval heritage, and commitment to defending the nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
file-sharing service
ⓘ
peer-to-peer content delivery network ⓘ technology startup ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Akamai Technologies ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPaymentForm | stock ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | approximately 18.7 million US dollars ⓘ |
| businessModel | enterprise content delivery services ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fate | acquired and integrated into Akamai Technologies ⓘ |
| foundedBefore | Uber ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Michael Todd
ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Todd
Travis Kalanick ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
content delivery
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file sharing ⓘ peer-to-peer networking ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Michael Todd
ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Todd
Travis Kalanick ⓘ |
| notableFor | using P2P to reduce bandwidth costs for content providers ⓘ |
| notableFounderLaterFounded | Uber ⓘ |
| operatingStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| productType |
content delivery platform
ⓘ
software development kit ⓘ |
| serviceType |
accelerated file distribution
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bandwidth offload for large media files ⓘ |
| successor | Akamai Technologies peer-to-peer and distributed delivery offerings ⓘ |
| targetCustomers |
large content publishers
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media companies ⓘ software distributors ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
HTTP-based content delivery
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peer-to-peer networking ⓘ |
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: Red Swoosh Description of subject: Red Swoosh was a peer-to-peer content delivery and file-sharing startup later acquired by Akamai Technologies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.