Keyhole Inc.
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Keyhole Inc. was a pioneering geospatial technology company whose 3D mapping software formed the basis for what became Google Earth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keyhole, Inc. | 2 |
| Keyhole Inc. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3427022 — 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: Keyhole Inc. Context triple: [Google Earth, originalDeveloper, Keyhole Inc.]
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A.
Onex Corporation
Onex Corporation is a Canadian investment management firm and private equity company known for acquiring and managing businesses across various industries.
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B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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C.
Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is a prolific early-stage venture capital firm and angel fund known for making a high volume of seed investments in startups worldwide.
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D.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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E.
Stratton Oakmont
Stratton Oakmont was a notorious Long Island-based brokerage firm known for its aggressive “pump and dump” stock schemes and central role in the securities fraud case involving Jordan Belfort.
- 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: Keyhole Inc. Target entity description: Keyhole Inc. was a pioneering geospatial technology company whose 3D mapping software formed the basis for what became Google Earth.
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A.
Onex Corporation
Onex Corporation is a Canadian investment management firm and private equity company known for acquiring and managing businesses across various industries.
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B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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C.
Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is a prolific early-stage venture capital firm and angel fund known for making a high volume of seed investments in startups worldwide.
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D.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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E.
Stratton Oakmont
Stratton Oakmont was a notorious Long Island-based brokerage firm known for its aggressive “pump and dump” stock schemes and central role in the securities fraud case involving Jordan Belfort.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geospatial company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| acquisitionDate | 2004 ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription-based software ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
mainstream adoption of 3D digital maps
ⓘ
popularization of virtual globes ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataSources |
aerial photography
ⓘ
satellite imagery ⓘ terrain elevation data ⓘ |
| fate | acquired and integrated into Google ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Google Earth technology stack ⓘ |
| industry |
geospatial technology
ⓘ
mapping software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
3D mapping software
ⓘ
forming the basis of Google Earth ⓘ |
| notableProductSuccessor | Google Earth ⓘ |
| product |
Keyhole EarthViewer
ⓘ
linked to:
EarthViewer 3D
|
| softwareType |
3D geospatial visualization software
ⓘ
virtual globe software ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
consumer users
ⓘ
enterprise customers ⓘ government customers ⓘ |
| technologyUsedFor |
3D terrain visualization
ⓘ
satellite imagery visualization ⓘ virtual globe visualization ⓘ |
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: Keyhole Inc. Description of subject: Keyhole Inc. was a pioneering geospatial technology company whose 3D mapping software formed the basis for what became Google Earth.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Keyhole Inc.
linked to: Keyhole Inc.