Yammer
E56715
business communication tool
collaboration platform
enterprise social networking service
software product
Yammer is an enterprise social networking service that enables employees within an organization to communicate, collaborate, and share information in a secure, Facebook-like environment.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yammer canonical | 16 |
| Microsoft Viva Engage | 1 |
| Yammer enterprise social networking platform | 1 |
| Yammer, Inc. | 1 |
| Yammer, an enterprise social network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T452092 — 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: Yammer Context triple: [Microsoft 365, includes, Yammer]
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A.
Slack
Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration and messaging platform widely used for real-time communication, file sharing, and integrations with tools like Google Workspace.
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B.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform by Microsoft that provides chat, video conferencing, file sharing, and integration with other Microsoft 365 services for teams and organizations.
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C.
Google Chat
Google Chat is a business-focused messaging platform by Google that supports direct messages, group conversations, and integrated collaboration within the Google Workspace ecosystem.
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D.
Skype for Business Online
Skype for Business Online was Microsoft's cloud-based enterprise communication and collaboration service that provided messaging, meetings, and voice capabilities before being succeeded by Microsoft Teams.
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E.
Zoho Workplace
Zoho Workplace is an integrated suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration apps—including email, document editing, file storage, and communication tools—designed as an alternative to platforms like Google Workspace.
- 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: Yammer Target entity description: Yammer is an enterprise social networking service that enables employees within an organization to communicate, collaborate, and share information in a secure, Facebook-like environment.
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A.
Slack
Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration and messaging platform widely used for real-time communication, file sharing, and integrations with tools like Google Workspace.
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B.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform by Microsoft that provides chat, video conferencing, file sharing, and integration with other Microsoft 365 services for teams and organizations.
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C.
Google Chat
Google Chat is a business-focused messaging platform by Google that supports direct messages, group conversations, and integrated collaboration within the Google Workspace ecosystem.
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D.
Skype for Business Online
Skype for Business Online was Microsoft's cloud-based enterprise communication and collaboration service that provided messaging, meetings, and voice capabilities before being succeeded by Microsoft Teams.
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E.
Zoho Workplace
Zoho Workplace is an integrated suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration apps—including email, document editing, file storage, and communication tools—designed as an alternative to platforms like Google Workspace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business communication tool
ⓘ
collaboration platform ⓘ enterprise social networking service ⓘ software product ⓘ |
| accessControl | restricted to users with verified company email domains ⓘ |
| acquisitionBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquisitionCost | 1.2 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-07-19 ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription ⓘ |
| developer |
Microsoft
ⓘ
Yammer, Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Yammer
|
| feature |
activity feed
ⓘ
file sharing ⓘ groups ⓘ integration with Microsoft 365 ⓘ notifications ⓘ private messages ⓘ search ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Adam Pisoni
ⓘ
David Sacks ⓘ |
| genre |
enterprise collaboration software
ⓘ
enterprise social network ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| integratedInto |
Microsoft 365
ⓘ
Office 365 ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft 365
|
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web-based ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Microsoft ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
internal corporate communication
ⓘ
knowledge sharing within organizations ⓘ team collaboration ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | Viva Engage ⓘ |
| rebrandingAnnouncedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| rebrandingYear | 2023 ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
enterprise-grade security controls
ⓘ
single sign-on ⓘ |
| supports | private company networks ⓘ |
| supportsCommunicationType |
asynchronous communication
ⓘ
real-time conversation threads ⓘ |
| supportsContentType |
files
ⓘ
images ⓘ links ⓘ text posts ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
businesses
ⓘ
enterprises ⓘ organizations ⓘ |
| website | https://www.yammer.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: Yammer Description of subject: Yammer is an enterprise social networking service that enables employees within an organization to communicate, collaborate, and share information in a secure, Facebook-like environment.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yammer
linked to: Yammer
linked to: Yammer