Brigade Media
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Brigade Media was a civic technology startup focused on increasing political engagement and voter participation through a social networking platform.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brigade Media canonical | 1 |
| Brigade Network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4386799 — 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: Brigade Media Context triple: [Sean Parker, founded, Brigade Media]
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A.
Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group is a major American media conglomerate that owns and operates television stations, radio stations, and digital media properties across numerous U.S. markets.
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B.
Bomis
Bomis was an early web portal and search engine company co-founded by Jimmy Wales that later played a key role in funding and incubating Wikipedia.
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C.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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D.
Rainbow Media Holdings
Rainbow Media Holdings was a U.S.-based media company best known for owning and operating cable television networks and entertainment properties before being rebranded as AMC Networks.
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E.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
- 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: Brigade Media Target entity description: Brigade Media was a civic technology startup focused on increasing political engagement and voter participation through a social networking platform.
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A.
Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group is a major American media conglomerate that owns and operates television stations, radio stations, and digital media properties across numerous U.S. markets.
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B.
Bomis
Bomis was an early web portal and search engine company co-founded by Jimmy Wales that later played a key role in funding and incubating Wikipedia.
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C.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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D.
Rainbow Media Holdings
Rainbow Media Holdings was a U.S.-based media company best known for owning and operating cable television networks and entertainment properties before being rebranded as AMC Networks.
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E.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic technology company
ⓘ
startup company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Causes
ⓘ
Votizen ⓘ |
| acquisitionPurpose | expand civic engagement tools ⓘ |
| backedBy | Sean Parker ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| feature |
tools for connecting with like-minded voters
ⓘ
tools for discussing political issues ⓘ tools for organizing around political causes ⓘ tools for taking positions on issues ⓘ |
| focus |
political engagement
ⓘ
voter participation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
James Windon
ⓘ
Matt Mahan ⓘ Sean Parker ⓘ |
| fundingType | venture-backed ⓘ |
| goal |
increase political engagement
ⓘ
increase voter participation ⓘ |
| hasRole |
James Windon
ⓘ
Matt Mahan ⓘ Sean Parker ⓘ |
| industry |
civic technology
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ |
| launchPurpose |
help people engage in politics
ⓘ
help people influence government ⓘ |
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempting to build a social network for politics
ⓘ
using technology to increase civic participation ⓘ |
| offeredService |
issue-based political discussions
ⓘ
tools to contact elected officials ⓘ tools to organize around campaigns ⓘ tools to pledge support on issues ⓘ |
| operatedIn | 2010s ⓘ |
| platformType |
mobile application
ⓘ
social networking platform ⓘ web application ⓘ |
| product | Brigade political social network ⓘ |
| reasonForShutdown |
challenges in sustaining user engagement
ⓘ
difficulty achieving scale ⓘ |
| roleOfJames Windon | co-founder ⓘ |
| roleOfMatt Mahan | co-founder ⓘ |
| roleOfSean Parker | co-founder ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
politically engaged citizens
ⓘ
voters in the United States ⓘ |
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: Brigade Media Description of subject: Brigade Media was a civic technology startup focused on increasing political engagement and voter participation through a social networking platform.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Brigade Media