US West Dex
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US West Dex was the directory publishing and yellow pages subsidiary associated with the former U.S. telecommunications company US West.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US West Dex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7492338 — 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: US West Dex Context triple: [US West, ownedBrand, US West Dex]
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A.
South West Company
South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
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B.
SUNW
SUNW is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Sun Microsystems, a pioneering American company in computer workstations, servers, and the development of the Java programming language.
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C.
Transamerica
Transamerica is a 2005 independent drama film about a transgender woman’s cross-country journey with her estranged son, noted for Felicity Huffman’s acclaimed lead performance.
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D.
Gulf+Western
Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Volacom
Volacom is a company founded by Tesla co-founder and battery technology pioneer JB Straubel, likely focused on advanced engineering and sustainable technology solutions.
- 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: US West Dex Target entity description: US West Dex was the directory publishing and yellow pages subsidiary associated with the former U.S. telecommunications company US West.
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A.
South West Company
South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
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B.
SUNW
SUNW is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Sun Microsystems, a pioneering American company in computer workstations, servers, and the development of the Java programming language.
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C.
Transamerica
Transamerica is a 2005 independent drama film about a transgender woman’s cross-country journey with her estranged son, noted for Felicity Huffman’s acclaimed lead performance.
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D.
Gulf+Western
Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Volacom
Volacom is a company founded by Tesla co-founder and battery technology pioneer JB Straubel, likely focused on advanced engineering and sustainable technology solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
directory publishing company
ⓘ
yellow pages publisher ⓘ |
| affiliation | Baby Bell company ecosystem ⓘ |
| associatedWith | US West ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States West region
ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
|
| category |
US West subsidiaries
ⓘ
Yellow pages publishers in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | regional directories ⓘ |
| industry |
directory publishing
ⓘ
yellow pages ⓘ
linked to:
Yellow Pages
|
| market | local business advertising ⓘ |
| medium |
print
ⓘ
telephone books ⓘ |
| operatedAs | subsidiary ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
US West Communications
ⓘ
linked to:
Qwest Communications International
|
| parentCompany | US West ⓘ |
| partOf |
US West directory operations
ⓘ
linked to:
Qwest Communications International
|
| predecessorOf | Dex Media ⓘ |
| product |
telephone directories
ⓘ
white pages directories ⓘ yellow pages directories ⓘ |
| service |
classified advertising
ⓘ
local business listings ⓘ print directory advertising ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
US West local telephone service region
ⓘ
linked to:
US West
|
| successor | Dex Media ⓘ |
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: US West Dex Description of subject: US West Dex was the directory publishing and yellow pages subsidiary associated with the former U.S. telecommunications company US West.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.