Kickstarter
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Kickstarter is a popular online crowdfunding platform that enables creators to raise funds from backers for creative projects across fields like art, technology, film, and design.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kickstarter canonical | 16 |
| Kickstarter crowdfunding | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4808031 — 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)
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Target entity: Kickstarter Context triple: [PonoMusic, crowdfundingPlatform, Kickstarter]
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A.
PledgeMusic
PledgeMusic was a now-defunct direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform that allowed musicians to raise money and engage supporters around album releases and other creative projects.
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B.
Kickstart
Kickstart is the ROM-based firmware of the Commodore Amiga computers that initializes the hardware and loads the AmigaOS.
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C.
CrunchFund
CrunchFund is a venture capital firm founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington that invests primarily in early-stage technology startups.
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D.
Giving 2.0
Giving 2.0 is a book by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen that offers a modern, strategic approach to effective philanthropy for individual donors.
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E.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator known for funding and mentoring early-stage technology companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.
- 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: Kickstarter Target entity description: Kickstarter is a popular online crowdfunding platform that enables creators to raise funds from backers for creative projects across fields like art, technology, film, and design.
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A.
PledgeMusic
PledgeMusic was a now-defunct direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform that allowed musicians to raise money and engage supporters around album releases and other creative projects.
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B.
Kickstart
Kickstart is the ROM-based firmware of the Commodore Amiga computers that initializes the hardware and loads the AmigaOS.
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C.
CrunchFund
CrunchFund is a venture capital firm founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington that invests primarily in early-stage technology startups.
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D.
Giving 2.0
Giving 2.0 is a book by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen that offers a modern, strategic approach to effective philanthropy for individual donors.
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E.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator known for funding and mentoring early-stage technology companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crowdfunding platform
ⓘ
online platform ⓘ website ⓘ |
| aimsTo | help bring creative projects to life ⓘ |
| allows | project-based fundraising ⓘ |
| businessModel |
all-or-nothing funding
ⓘ
reward-based crowdfunding ⓘ |
| charges | platform fee ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| enables | creators to raise funds from backers ⓘ |
| focusesOn | creative projects ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Charles Adler
ⓘ
Perry Chen ⓘ Yancey Strickler ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
backer updates
ⓘ
community guidelines ⓘ funding progress bar ⓘ project categories ⓘ project pages ⓘ reward tiers ⓘ search and discovery tools ⓘ staff picks ⓘ |
| hasUserRole |
backer
ⓘ
creator ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.kickstarter.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Brooklyn, New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| industry | crowdfunding ⓘ |
| legalForm | Public Benefit Corporation ⓘ |
| offers | rewards to backers ⓘ |
| operatesInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| prohibits |
equity crowdfunding
ⓘ
offering financial returns ⓘ |
| requires |
funding deadline
ⓘ
funding goal ⓘ |
| supportsField |
art
ⓘ
comics ⓘ design ⓘ fashion ⓘ film ⓘ food ⓘ games ⓘ music ⓘ publishing ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
creative entrepreneurs
ⓘ
independent creators ⓘ |
| uses |
payment processing fees
ⓘ
pledge system ⓘ |
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: Kickstarter Description of subject: Kickstarter is a popular online crowdfunding platform that enables creators to raise funds from backers for creative projects across fields like art, technology, film, and design.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.