Tellme Networks
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Tellme Networks was a voice-recognition and interactive voice response (IVR) technology company best known for providing speech-enabled telephone services and platforms, later acquired by Microsoft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tellme Networks canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5465249 — 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: Tellme Networks Context triple: [Avie Tevanian, boardMemberOf, Tellme Networks]
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A.
Genesys
Genesys is a global customer experience and contact center technology company known for its cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage and optimize customer interactions.
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B.
Versoix
Versoix is a Swiss municipality on the shores of Lake Geneva, known as a residential suburb of Geneva with lakeside promenades and a mix of urban and natural landscapes.
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C.
Teleperformance
Teleperformance is a global leader in outsourced customer experience management and business process outsourcing services, headquartered in France.
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D.
Plaxo
Plaxo was an online address book and social networking service that helped users manage and synchronize their contact information across multiple platforms.
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E.
T.A.T. Communications Company
T.A.T. Communications Company was a television production company best known for producing popular American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Tellme Networks Target entity description: Tellme Networks was a voice-recognition and interactive voice response (IVR) technology company best known for providing speech-enabled telephone services and platforms, later acquired by Microsoft.
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A.
Genesys
Genesys is a global customer experience and contact center technology company known for its cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage and optimize customer interactions.
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B.
Versoix
Versoix is a Swiss municipality on the shores of Lake Geneva, known as a residential suburb of Geneva with lakeside promenades and a mix of urban and natural landscapes.
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C.
Teleperformance
Teleperformance is a global leader in outsourced customer experience management and business process outsourcing services, headquartered in France.
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D.
Plaxo
Plaxo was an online address book and social networking service that helped users manage and synchronize their contact information across multiple platforms.
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E.
T.A.T. Communications Company
T.A.T. Communications Company was a television production company best known for producing popular American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
interactive voice response company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ voice recognition company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2007-03-14 ⓘ |
| acquisitionStatus | completed ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| businessModel |
hosted voice application platform
ⓘ
usage-based telephony services ⓘ |
| coreCapability |
recognizing spoken commands over the phone
ⓘ
routing calls using speech input ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customer |
enterprises
ⓘ
information service providers ⓘ telecom carriers ⓘ |
| foundationPlace |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| foundedBy |
Jeff Oglesby
ⓘ
Mike McCue ⓘ other co-founders ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
|
| industry |
cloud services
ⓘ
interactive voice response ⓘ speech recognition ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| integrationWith |
Microsoft Office Communications Server
ⓘ
linked to:
Skype for Business Server
Microsoft unified communications products ⓘ
linked to:
Skype for Business Server
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| knownFor |
IVR platforms
ⓘ
speech-enabled telephone services ⓘ voice portal services ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
cloud-hosted IVR infrastructure
ⓘ
speech-enabled access to information via phone ⓘ |
| operatedIn | North America ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Microsoft ⓘ |
| platformType | voice application platform ⓘ |
| product |
hosted IVR platform
ⓘ
speech-enabled directory assistance ⓘ voice portal for information services ⓘ |
| service |
developer voice application platform
ⓘ
enterprise IVR hosting ⓘ telephone-based speech recognition ⓘ |
| status | defunct as independent company ⓘ |
| successor |
Microsoft speech services
ⓘ
linked to:
Azure Cognitive Services
|
| technology |
DTMF-based IVR
ⓘ
automatic speech recognition ⓘ text-to-speech ⓘ |
| telephoneAccessNumberType |
local access numbers
ⓘ
toll-free numbers ⓘ |
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: Tellme Networks Description of subject: Tellme Networks was a voice-recognition and interactive voice response (IVR) technology company best known for providing speech-enabled telephone services and platforms, later acquired by Microsoft.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.