eBay
E7814
eBay is a global e-commerce company best known for its online auction and consumer-to-consumer sales platform.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| eBay canonical | 31 |
| eBay Inc. | 3 |
| AuctionWeb | 2 |
| EBAY | 1 |
| eBay Kleinanzeigen (former) | 1 |
| eBay UK | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88410 — 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: eBay Context triple: [San Jose, hostsCompanyHeadquarters, eBay]
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A.
X.com
X.com is an online financial services and payments company co-founded by Elon Musk in 1999 that later became part of PayPal.
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B.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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C.
PayPal
PayPal is a leading global online payment platform that enables individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage digital payments securely over the internet.
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D.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
- 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: eBay Target entity description: eBay is a global e-commerce company best known for its online auction and consumer-to-consumer sales platform.
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A.
X.com
X.com is an online financial services and payments company co-founded by Elon Musk in 1999 that later became part of PayPal.
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B.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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C.
PayPal
PayPal is a leading global online payment platform that enables individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage digital payments securely over the internet.
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D.
AOL
AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
e-commerce company
ⓘ
online marketplace ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| acquired | PayPal ⓘ |
| acquiredDate | 2002 (PayPal) ⓘ |
| businessModel |
business-to-consumer marketplace
ⓘ
consumer-to-consumer marketplace ⓘ |
| category |
internet company
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| founder |
Jeff Skoll
ⓘ
Pierre Omidyar ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1995-09-03 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Buy It Now option
ⓘ
bidding system ⓘ buyer protection programs ⓘ seller feedback system ⓘ |
| hasMobileApp | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
StubHub (former)
ⓘ
eBay Kleinanzeigen (former) ⓘ
linked to:
eBay
|
| headquartersLocation |
San Jose, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
|
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry |
e-commerce
ⓘ
online auctions ⓘ online retail ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Pierre Omidyar
ⓘ
current CEO (varies over time) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| logoImage | eBay logo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consumer-to-consumer sales
ⓘ
online auction platform ⓘ |
| offersService |
classified ads
ⓘ
fixed-price listings ⓘ online auctions ⓘ online payment integration ⓘ |
| operatesIn | global ⓘ |
| originalName |
AuctionWeb
ⓘ
linked to:
eBay
|
| revenueModel |
advertising
ⓘ
final value fees ⓘ listing fees ⓘ |
| spinoffDate | 2015 (PayPal) ⓘ |
| spunOff | PayPal ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage | multiple languages ⓘ |
| supportsPaymentMethod |
PayPal (varies by region)
ⓘ
linked to:
PayPal
credit cards ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
individual consumers
ⓘ
small businesses ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
EBAY
ⓘ
linked to:
eBay
|
| website | https://www.ebay.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: eBay Description of subject: eBay is a global e-commerce company best known for its online auction and consumer-to-consumer sales platform.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: eBay
linked to: eBay
linked to: eBay
linked to: eBay
linked to: eBay
subject linked to:
StubHub (former)
subject linked to:
StubHub (former)
linked to: eBay
linked to: eBay
subject linked to:
Capricorn Investment Group
linked to: eBay