Joltid
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Joltid is a software company best known for developing peer-to-peer technologies that underpinned services like Skype.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joltid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2556614 — 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: Joltid Context triple: [Niklas Zennström, coFounded, Joltid]
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A.
Litovel
Litovel is a historic town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic, known for its traditional architecture and local brewery.
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B.
Jawz
Jawz is the jaguar mascot representing Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) at its athletic events and campus activities.
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C.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
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D.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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E.
Heed
Heed is the fiercely loyal yet conflicted protagonist of Toni Morrison’s novel "Love," whose lifelong bond and rivalry with her friend Christine drive much of the story’s emotional and thematic tension.
- 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: Joltid Target entity description: Joltid is a software company best known for developing peer-to-peer technologies that underpinned services like Skype.
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A.
Litovel
Litovel is a historic town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic, known for its traditional architecture and local brewery.
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B.
Jawz
Jawz is the jaguar mascot representing Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) at its athletic events and campus activities.
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C.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
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D.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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E.
Heed
Heed is the fiercely loyal yet conflicted protagonist of Toni Morrison’s novel "Love," whose lifelong bond and rivalry with her friend Christine drive much of the story’s emotional and thematic tension.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Joost
ⓘ
Kazaa ⓘ Skype ⓘ |
| businessModel | licensing of peer-to-peer technology ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developed |
P2P technology used by Skype
ⓘ
peer-to-peer networking software ⓘ |
| focus |
internet communications technology
ⓘ
scalable peer-to-peer infrastructure ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Janus Friis
ⓘ
Niklas Zennström ⓘ founders of Kazaa ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Janus Friis
ⓘ
Niklas Zennström ⓘ |
| industry |
peer-to-peer technology
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| involvedIn | legal disputes over Skype technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing peer-to-peer technologies
ⓘ
providing core technology for Skype ⓘ |
| ownsIntellectualPropertyFor | Skype peer-to-peer technology (historically) ⓘ |
| providedLicensingFor | Skype core P2P technology ⓘ |
| providedTechnologyFor | Skype ⓘ |
| relatedCompany |
Joost N.V.
ⓘ
linked to:
Joost
Kazaa BV ⓘ
linked to:
Kazaa
Skype Technologies ⓘ
linked to:
Skype
|
| technologyType |
distributed computing
ⓘ
peer-to-peer overlay network ⓘ |
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: Joltid Description of subject: Joltid is a software company best known for developing peer-to-peer technologies that underpinned services like Skype.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.