Yellow Pages
E341126
Yellow Pages is a traditional printed and online business directory service that organizes companies and services by category for consumer reference.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NYNEX Yellow Pages | 1 |
| Paginas Amarillas | 1 |
| Yellow Pages canonical | 1 |
| yellow pages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3245492 — 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: Yellow Pages Context triple: [NIS, formerName, Yellow Pages]
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A.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
GMB
GMB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to The Gambia.
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C.
Google My Business
Google My Business is a free tool from Google that lets businesses manage how their information appears across Google services, including Search and Maps, to improve visibility and customer engagement.
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D.
Infoseek
Infoseek was an early web search engine and internet portal that gained prominence in the mid-1990s before being acquired and integrated into Disney’s online properties.
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E.
Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
- 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: Yellow Pages Target entity description: Yellow Pages is a traditional printed and online business directory service that organizes companies and services by category for consumer reference.
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A.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
GMB
GMB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to The Gambia.
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C.
Google My Business
Google My Business is a free tool from Google that lets businesses manage how their information appears across Google services, including Search and Maps, to improve visibility and customer engagement.
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D.
Infoseek
Infoseek was an early web search engine and internet portal that gained prominence in the mid-1990s before being acquired and integrated into Disney’s online properties.
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E.
Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brand
ⓘ
business directory ⓘ reference work ⓘ telephone directory ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
local exchange carriers
ⓘ
telephone companies ⓘ |
| businessModel |
free basic listings
ⓘ
paid advertising listings ⓘ |
| category | directories ⓘ |
| colorScheme | yellow background with black text ⓘ |
| commonAbbreviation | YP ⓘ |
| competesWith |
local review sites
ⓘ
online search engines ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy | yellow paper pages ⓘ |
| feature |
alphabetical listings within categories
ⓘ
bold listings ⓘ display ads ⓘ enhanced listings ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online directory
ⓘ
print directory ⓘ |
| hasSection |
business listings
ⓘ
government and public services listings ⓘ maps and local information ⓘ |
| languageOrigin | English ⓘ |
| medium |
mobile application
ⓘ
printed book ⓘ website ⓘ |
| organizesBy | business category ⓘ |
| purpose | help consumers find local businesses ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
White Pages
ⓘ
linked to:
Whitepages
classified advertising ⓘ |
| revenueSource |
advertising fees
ⓘ
premium listing fees ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
local markets
ⓘ
regional markets ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | digital platforms ⓘ |
| typicalContent |
business addresses
ⓘ
business advertisements ⓘ business names ⓘ business phone numbers ⓘ classified listings ⓘ |
| typicalDistribution |
business delivery
ⓘ
household delivery ⓘ |
| typicalUsers |
consumers
ⓘ
small businesses ⓘ |
| usedFor |
finding emergency services
ⓘ
finding professional services ⓘ finding service providers ⓘ finding tradespeople ⓘ |
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: Yellow Pages Description of subject: Yellow Pages is a traditional printed and online business directory service that organizes companies and services by category for consumer reference.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yellow Pages
linked to: Yellow Pages