DigitalOcean
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DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider known for its simple, developer-friendly platform offering virtual servers, storage, and networking services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DigitalOcean canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938563 — 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: DigitalOcean Context triple: [Foreman, supportsCloudPlatform, DigitalOcean]
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A.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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B.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
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C.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
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D.
Cloud9
Cloud9 is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its success across games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Valorant.
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E.
Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company best known for its edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) services that accelerate and secure web and application delivery.
- 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: DigitalOcean Target entity description: DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider known for its simple, developer-friendly platform offering virtual servers, storage, and networking services.
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A.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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B.
Media Temple
Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services company known for providing managed hosting solutions for designers, developers, and businesses, and is owned by GoDaddy.
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C.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
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D.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
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E.
Cloud9
Cloud9 is a prominent North American esports organization best known for its success across games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Valorant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud infrastructure provider
ⓘ
infrastructure as a service provider ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Alec Hartman
ⓘ
Ben Uretsky ⓘ Jeff Carr ⓘ Mitch Wainer ⓘ Moisey Uretsky ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
SSH access to servers
ⓘ
data centers in multiple regions ⓘ marketplace of preconfigured images ⓘ one-click application deployments ⓘ team accounts ⓘ usage-based billing ⓘ |
| hasProgrammingInterface | REST API ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
web hosting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developer-friendly documentation
ⓘ
predictable pricing ⓘ simple user interface ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| offers |
API access
ⓘ
cloud networking ⓘ cloud storage ⓘ virtual private servers ⓘ |
| product |
DNS management
ⓘ
Droplets ⓘ Kubernetes service ⓘ VPC networking ⓘ app platform ⓘ block storage ⓘ cloud firewall ⓘ load balancers ⓘ managed databases ⓘ monitoring and alerting ⓘ object storage ⓘ |
| serviceModel |
Infrastructure as a Service
ⓘ
Platform as a Service ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
small and medium-sized businesses
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ startups ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | DOCN ⓘ |
| website | https://www.digitalocean.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: DigitalOcean Description of subject: DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider known for its simple, developer-friendly platform offering virtual servers, storage, and networking services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.