Twitter, Inc.
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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.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1,036 | |
| Twitter, Inc. canonical | 15 |
| X (formerly Twitter) | 7 |
| X (Twitter) | 6 |
| Board of Twitter (now X) (former) | 1 |
| TWTR | 1 |
| Twitter (internal services) | 1 |
| Twitter (prior to reinstatement after policy changes) | 1 |
| Twitter / X | 1 |
| Twitter, Inc. (predecessor of X Corp.) | 1 |
| Twitter, Inc. to X Corp. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T38648 — 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: Twitter, Inc. Context triple: [Elon Musk, acquisition, Twitter, Inc.]
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A.
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.
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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.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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D.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
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E.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- 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: Twitter, Inc. Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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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.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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D.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
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E.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microblogging service operator
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social media company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Elon Musk-controlled entities
ⓘ
X Corp. ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2022-10-27 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 44000000000 USD ⓘ |
| ceo |
Dick Costolo
ⓘ
Jack Dorsey ⓘ Parag Agrawal ⓘ |
| chairperson |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Omid Kordestani ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName | Obvious Corporation ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Obvious Corporation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Biz Stone
ⓘ
Evan Williams ⓘ Jack Dorsey ⓘ Noah Glass ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
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| inception | 2006-03-21 ⓘ |
| industry |
microblogging
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online advertising ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| influenced |
online journalism
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political campaigning ⓘ social movements worldwide ⓘ |
| ipoDate | 2013-11-07 ⓘ |
| legalStatus |
merged into X Corp.
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linked to:
X Corp.
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| majorRevenueSource |
data licensing
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digital advertising ⓘ |
| netIncome | -221000000 USD (2021) ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
140-character tweet limit (later 280 characters)
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@mentions ⓘ hashtags ⓘ retweets ⓘ trending topics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on online news dissemination
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influence on politics and public discourse ⓘ real-time short-message communication ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | ~7500 (2021) ⓘ |
| operated |
Periscope
ⓘ
Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
Vine ⓘ |
| primaryProduct | Twitter platform ⓘ |
| revenue | 5060000000 USD (2021) ⓘ |
| serviceType |
microblogging
ⓘ
social networking service ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor | X Corp. ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
TWTR
ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| userBase | over 200 million daily active users (2021) ⓘ |
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: Twitter, Inc. Description of subject: 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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