Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. is a major American technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media and virtual reality products.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T224940 — 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: Meta Platforms, Inc. Context triple: [NASDAQ, lists, Meta Platforms, Inc.]
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A.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is an American technology and social media company best known for developing the multimedia messaging app Snapchat and related camera and augmented reality products.
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B.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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C.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
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D.
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate that serves as the holding company for Google and various other businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and autonomous vehicles.
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E.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
- 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: Meta Platforms, Inc. Target entity description: Meta Platforms, Inc. is a major American technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media and virtual reality products.
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A.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is an American technology and social media company best known for developing the multimedia messaging app Snapchat and related camera and augmented reality products.
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B.
Facebook
Facebook is a major global social networking platform that allows users to connect, share content, and communicate online.
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C.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter, Inc. was a major social media and microblogging company best known for its real-time short-message platform that shaped online news, politics, and public discourse worldwide.
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D.
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate that serves as the holding company for Google and various other businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and autonomous vehicles.
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E.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
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public company ⓘ social media company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| CEO | Mark Zuckerberg ⓘ |
| chairperson | Mark Zuckerberg ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn | metaverse ⓘ |
| formerName |
Facebook, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Meta Platforms, Inc.
|
| foundedAs |
TheFacebook
ⓘ
linked to:
Facebook
|
| foundedBy |
Andrew McCollum
ⓘ
Chris Hughes ⓘ Dustin Moskovitz ⓘ Eduardo Saverin ⓘ Mark Zuckerberg ⓘ |
| hasSlogan |
Move fast
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Move fast with stable infrastructure ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Menlo Park, California ⓘ |
| inception | 2004 ⓘ |
| industry |
online advertising
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social networking ⓘ technology ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ |
| ISIN | US30303M1027 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| owns |
Facebook
ⓘ
Instagram ⓘ Messenger ⓘ Meta Quest ⓘ
linked to:
Oculus VR
Oculus ⓘ
linked to:
Oculus VR
Threads ⓘ WhatsApp ⓘ Workplace from Meta ⓘ |
| product |
Facebook app
ⓘ
linked to:
Facebook
Instagram app ⓘ
linked to:
Instagram
Messenger app ⓘ
linked to:
Messenger
Meta Quest headsets ⓘ
linked to:
Oculus VR
Portal devices ⓘ WhatsApp Messenger ⓘ
linked to:
WhatsApp
|
| rebrandedAs | Meta Platforms, Inc. ⓘ |
| rebrandingDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Facebook Technologies, LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Instagram, LLC ⓘ
linked to:
Instagram
WhatsApp LLC ⓘ
linked to:
WhatsApp
|
| tickerSymbol |
META
ⓘ
linked to:
Meta
|
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: Meta Platforms, Inc. Description of subject: Meta Platforms, Inc. is a major American technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media and virtual reality products.
Referenced by (186)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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IGTV (discontinued as standalone brand)
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IGTV (discontinued as standalone brand)
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Meta
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Meta
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Meta
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Aurelia
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Hack (programming language)
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