Cloud9
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Cloud9 is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its success across games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Valorant.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cloud9 canonical | 3 |
| Cloud9 Academy | 2 |
| Cloud9 Blue | 1 |
| Cloud9 White | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3410814 — 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: Cloud9 Context triple: [Counter Logic Gaming, notableRival, Cloud9]
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A.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
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B.
Bitbucket
Bitbucket is a web-based platform for hosting Git repositories that provides source code management, collaboration tools, and integration with development workflows.
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C.
GitLab
GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform that provides Git repository hosting along with integrated tools for source code management, CI/CD, and project collaboration.
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D.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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E.
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry is an open-source, multi-cloud application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud-native applications.
- 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: Cloud9 Target entity description: Cloud9 is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its success across games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Valorant.
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A.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
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B.
Bitbucket
Bitbucket is a web-based platform for hosting Git repositories that provides source code management, collaboration tools, and integration with development workflows.
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C.
GitLab
GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform that provides Git repository hosting along with integrated tools for source code management, CI/CD, and project collaboration.
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D.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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E.
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry is an open-source, multi-cloud application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud-native applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
esports organization
ⓘ
multigame esports organization ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| colors |
black
ⓘ
blue ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Jack Etienne
ⓘ
Paige Etienne ⓘ |
| foundedDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| hasAcademyTeam |
Cloud9 Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Cloud9
|
| hasContentBrand | C9 ⓘ |
| hasGameDivision |
Apex Legends
ⓘ
Counter-Strike 2 ⓘ Halo ⓘ
linked to:
Halo video game series
Hearthstone ⓘ League of Legends ⓘ Overwatch ⓘ
linked to:
Overwatch Contenders
Super Smash Bros. ⓘ Teamfight Tactics ⓘ Valorant ⓘ World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| hasTeamName |
Cloud9 Blue
ⓘ
linked to:
Cloud9
Cloud9 White ⓘ
linked to:
Cloud9
|
| knownFor |
fielding competitive rosters in multiple esports titles
ⓘ
strong talent development in League of Legends ⓘ |
| leagueParticipation |
LCS
ⓘ
VCT Americas ⓘ various CS:GO and CS2 circuits ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
2018 ELEAGUE Boston Major win in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
ⓘ
multiple LCS championships in League of Legends ⓘ regular appearances at League of Legends World Championship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Counter-Strike Major championship win
ⓘ
League of Legends Championship Series participation ⓘ Valorant Champions Tour participation ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| shortName | C9 ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Instagram
ⓘ
Twitch ⓘ Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
YouTube ⓘ |
| sponsors |
BMW
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ Puma ⓘ Red Bull ⓘ
linked to:
Red Bull GmbH
|
| website | https://www.cloud9.gg ⓘ |
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: Cloud9 Description of subject: Cloud9 is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its success across games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Valorant.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Darshan "Darshan" Upadhyaya
linked to: Cloud9
linked to: Cloud9
linked to: Cloud9
linked to: Cloud9