Ricochet wireless internet service
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Ricochet wireless internet service was an early wireless data network in the United States that provided mobile internet access via a nationwide mesh of radio modems before Wi-Fi and modern cellular data became widespread.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metricom Ricochet service | 1 |
| Ricochet wireless data network | 1 |
| Ricochet wireless internet service canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8038748 — 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)
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Target entity: Ricochet wireless internet service Context triple: [Metricom, notableFor, Ricochet wireless internet service]
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A.
Google Fiber
Google Fiber is a high-speed broadband internet and television service provider that offers gigabit fiber-optic connectivity to residential and business customers in select U.S. cities.
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B.
Cox Internet
Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
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C.
Plusnet
Plusnet is a UK-based internet service provider known for offering affordable broadband and phone packages, historically operating as a value-focused brand under BT Group.
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D.
Fios
Fios is Verizon's fiber-optic communications service offering high-speed internet, television, and phone to residential and business customers.
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E.
Rincon Networks
Rincon Networks was the original name of Sonos, the American company known for its wireless home audio products and multi-room sound systems.
- 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: Ricochet wireless internet service Target entity description: Ricochet wireless internet service was an early wireless data network in the United States that provided mobile internet access via a nationwide mesh of radio modems before Wi-Fi and modern cellular data became widespread.
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A.
Google Fiber
Google Fiber is a high-speed broadband internet and television service provider that offers gigabit fiber-optic connectivity to residential and business customers in select U.S. cities.
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B.
Cox Internet
Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
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C.
Plusnet
Plusnet is a UK-based internet service provider known for offering affordable broadband and phone packages, historically operating as a value-focused brand under BT Group.
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D.
Fios
Fios is Verizon's fiber-optic communications service offering high-speed internet, television, and phone to residential and business customers.
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E.
Rincon Networks
Rincon Networks was the original name of Sonos, the American company known for its wireless home audio products and multi-room sound systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mobile internet service
ⓘ
wireless data network ⓘ |
| accessTechnology | spread-spectrum radio ⓘ |
| associatedCompany |
Metricom, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Metricom
|
| billingModel | monthly subscription ⓘ |
| commercialLaunch | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| competition | emerging cellular data services ⓘ |
| connectionMethod |
PC Card
ⓘ
serial port ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverage | metropolitan areas ⓘ |
| dataRate |
128 kbit/s
ⓘ
28.8 kbit/s ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| introduced | 1990s ⓘ |
| limitation |
high infrastructure cost
ⓘ
limited geographic coverage ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of the first commercial mobile data networks in the U.S. ⓘ |
| networkArchitecture | mesh network ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early wide-area mobile data access
ⓘ
use of dense mesh of pole-top radios ⓘ |
| operator | Metricom ⓘ |
| peakPopularity | late 1990s ⓘ |
| precededBy | dial-up internet access ⓘ |
| predated | Wi‑Fi hotspots ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | modern cellular data services ⓘ |
| provided | mobile internet access ⓘ |
| requiredDevice | external wireless modem ⓘ |
| serviceBrand | Ricochet ⓘ |
| serviceType | packet-switched data ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
laptop users
ⓘ
mobile professionals ⓘ |
| useCase |
email access on the go
ⓘ
mobile web browsing ⓘ |
| used | radio modems ⓘ |
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: Ricochet wireless internet service Description of subject: Ricochet wireless internet service was an early wireless data network in the United States that provided mobile internet access via a nationwide mesh of radio modems before Wi-Fi and modern cellular data became widespread.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ricochet wireless internet service
linked to: Ricochet wireless internet service