SquareTrade
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SquareTrade is a company that provides extended warranties and protection plans for consumer electronics and appliances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SquareTrade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3614818 — 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: SquareTrade Context triple: [Allstate, hasSubsidiary, SquareTrade]
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A.
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a UK-based mobile phone and telecommunications retailer known for selling handsets, contracts, and related services across high-street stores and online.
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B.
Droid Depot
Droid Depot is an immersive build-your-own-droid shop and merchandise location within Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disney theme parks.
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C.
Phones 4u
Phones 4u was a UK-based mobile phone retailer known for its high-street stores and prominent brand marketing before going into administration in 2014.
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D.
Sony Assurance
Sony Assurance is a Japanese insurance company under the Sony Financial Group, offering primarily automobile and other personal insurance services.
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E.
Genius Bar
The Genius Bar is Apple’s in-store technical support and service desk where customers receive hardware repairs, software help, and product advice from trained specialists.
- 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: SquareTrade Target entity description: SquareTrade is a company that provides extended warranties and protection plans for consumer electronics and appliances.
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A.
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a UK-based mobile phone and telecommunications retailer known for selling handsets, contracts, and related services across high-street stores and online.
-
B.
Droid Depot
Droid Depot is an immersive build-your-own-droid shop and merchandise location within Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disney theme parks.
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C.
Phones 4u
Phones 4u was a UK-based mobile phone retailer known for its high-street stores and prominent brand marketing before going into administration in 2014.
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D.
Sony Assurance
Sony Assurance is a Japanese insurance company under the Sony Financial Group, offering primarily automobile and other personal insurance services.
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E.
Genius Bar
The Genius Bar is Apple’s in-store technical support and service desk where customers receive hardware repairs, software help, and product advice from trained specialists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
warranty provider ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Allstate ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 1.4 billion USD ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Allstate Protection Plans
ⓘ
linked to:
Allstate
|
| brandOf |
Allstate Protection Plans
ⓘ
linked to:
Allstate
|
| businessModel |
direct-to-consumer warranties
ⓘ
warranty programs through retail partners ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Ahmed Khaishgi
ⓘ
Steve Abernethy ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
San Francisco ⓘ Sydney ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| inception | 1999 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer electronics protection plans
ⓘ
extended warranties ⓘ insurance ⓘ |
| offers |
accidental damage coverage
ⓘ
mechanical and electrical failure coverage ⓘ no-lemon policy on some plans ⓘ screen damage protection ⓘ spills and drops coverage ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Allstate ⓘ |
| partneredWith |
Amazon
ⓘ
Costco ⓘ
linked to:
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Target ⓘ
linked to:
Target Corporation
Walmart ⓘ
linked to:
Walmart Inc.
|
| productOrService |
TV protection plans
ⓘ
appliance protection plans ⓘ extended warranties for consumer electronics ⓘ laptop protection plans ⓘ mobile phone protection plans ⓘ protection plans for appliances ⓘ tablet protection plans ⓘ wearable device protection plans ⓘ |
| regulatoryClassification | licensed insurance provider in some jurisdictions ⓘ |
| serves |
consumers
ⓘ
retailers ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| website | https://www.squaretrade.com ⓘ |
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: SquareTrade Description of subject: SquareTrade is a company that provides extended warranties and protection plans for consumer electronics and appliances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.