Yodel
E434376
Yodel is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company that provides nationwide and international shipping services for businesses and consumers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yodel canonical | 4 |
| Yodel Direct | 1 |
| Yodel Xpress | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4362692 — 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: Yodel Context triple: [Parcelforce Worldwide, hasCompetitor, Yodel]
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A.
Singen
Singen is a town in southwestern Germany near the Swiss border, known for its industrial heritage and proximity to the Hohentwiel volcano and Lake Constance.
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B.
Yell
Yell is one of the larger inhabited islands in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and remote rural communities.
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C.
Yowlumne
Yowlumne is a Native American language variety traditionally spoken by the Yowlumne (Southern Valley Yokuts) people of California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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D.
Løten
Løten is a rural municipality in Innlandet county, Norway, known for its agricultural landscape and historic connections to painter Edvard Munch.
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E.
Edelweiss
"Edelweiss" is a gentle, nostalgic song from the musical *The Sound of Music*, widely recognized as one of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s most beloved compositions.
- 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: Yodel Target entity description: Yodel is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company that provides nationwide and international shipping services for businesses and consumers.
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A.
Singen
Singen is a town in southwestern Germany near the Swiss border, known for its industrial heritage and proximity to the Hohentwiel volcano and Lake Constance.
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B.
Yell
Yell is one of the larger inhabited islands in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and remote rural communities.
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C.
Yowlumne
Yowlumne is a Native American language variety traditionally spoken by the Yowlumne (Southern Valley Yokuts) people of California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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D.
Løten
Løten is a rural municipality in Innlandet county, Norway, known for its agricultural landscape and historic connections to painter Edvard Munch.
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E.
Edelweiss
"Edelweiss" is a gentle, nostalgic song from the musical *The Sound of Music*, widely recognized as one of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s most beloved compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courier company
ⓘ
logistics company ⓘ parcel delivery company ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Home Delivery Network
ⓘ
Yodel-branded DHL domestic business in the UK ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Yodel Direct
ⓘ
linked to:
Yodel
Yodel Xpect ⓘ Yodel Xpert ⓘ
linked to:
Yodel Xpect
Yodel Xpress ⓘ
linked to:
Yodel
|
| hasCompetitor |
DHL
ⓘ
DPD ⓘ
linked to:
DPDgroup
FedEx ⓘ Hermes ⓘ
linked to:
Hermes (Evri)
Royal Mail ⓘ UPS ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | thousands ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
England
ⓘ
Liverpool ⓘ |
| industry |
courier services
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ parcel delivery ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| offersService |
business-to-business delivery
ⓘ
business-to-consumer delivery ⓘ collection point delivery ⓘ courier services ⓘ international parcel delivery ⓘ nationwide parcel delivery ⓘ next-day delivery options ⓘ returns management services ⓘ tracked parcel services ⓘ two-day delivery options ⓘ |
| operates |
local delivery depots
ⓘ
national delivery network ⓘ sorting hubs ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Barclay Brothers interests ⓘ |
| predecessor | Home Delivery Network ⓘ |
| serves |
business customers
ⓘ
consumer customers ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
high-street retailers
ⓘ
individual senders ⓘ marketplace sellers ⓘ online retailers ⓘ small businesses ⓘ |
| uses |
air freight partners
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
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: Yodel Description of subject: Yodel is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company that provides nationwide and international shipping services for businesses and consumers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Parcel Force (as part of Royal Mail Group)
subject linked to:
Sir (David Barclay)