Meta
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Meta is a multinational technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, focusing on social media platforms and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meta canonical | 8 |
| META | 3 |
| Meta Reality Labs | 1 |
| Meta accounts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480856 — 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: Meta Context triple: [Coursera, hasPartner, Meta]
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A.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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B.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
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C.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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D.
EA
EA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Environment Agency, the public body responsible for environmental protection and regulation in England.
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E.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
- 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: Meta Target entity description: Meta is a multinational technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, focusing on social media platforms and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
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A.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard is a major American video game holding company known for franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.
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B.
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a renowned American video game developer and publisher best known for creating major franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.
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C.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks is a prominent American video game publisher and developer best known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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D.
EA
EA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Environment Agency, the public body responsible for environmental protection and regulation in England.
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E.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Meta Description of subject: Meta is a multinational technology company best known as the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, focusing on social media platforms and virtual/augmented reality technologies.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meta
linked to: Meta
linked to: Meta
linked to: Meta