Swarm
E818825
Swarm is Foursquare’s companion mobile app focused on lifelogging and social location sharing, allowing users to check in to places, track their movements, and connect with friends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swarm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9741334 — 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: Swarm Context triple: [Foursquare, hasProduct, Swarm]
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A.
Swarm
Swarm is a creative work—likely a film, series, or literary piece—recognized as a significant contribution by Fam Udeorji.
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B.
Swarm
Swarm is a work created by Michael Schaefer, recognized as one of his notable artistic or creative projects.
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C.
Swarm
Swarm is a giant wasp-like Skylander character from the Skylanders: Giants video game, known for his flying abilities and stinger-based combat.
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D.
The Swarm
"The Swarm" is a poem by Winter Trees, likely exploring themes of collective movement, nature, or transformation through vivid, atmospheric imagery.
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E.
The Swarm
The Swarm is a winged steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in the UK, themed around a post-apocalyptic disaster with near-miss elements and inversions.
- 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: Swarm Target entity description: Swarm is Foursquare’s companion mobile app focused on lifelogging and social location sharing, allowing users to check in to places, track their movements, and connect with friends.
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A.
Swarm
Swarm is a giant wasp-like Skylander character from the Skylanders: Giants video game, known for his flying abilities and stinger-based combat.
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B.
Swarm
Swarm is a creative work—likely a film, series, or literary piece—recognized as a significant contribution by Fam Udeorji.
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C.
Swarm
Swarm is a work created by Michael Schaefer, recognized as one of his notable artistic or creative projects.
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D.
The Swarm
"The Swarm" is a poem by Winter Trees, likely exploring themes of collective movement, nature, or transformation through vivid, atmospheric imagery.
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E.
The Swarm
The Swarm is a winged steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in the UK, themed around a post-apocalyptic disaster with near-miss elements and inversions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lifelogging app
ⓘ
mobile application ⓘ social networking service ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Apple App Store
ⓘ
linked to:
App Store
Google Play Store ⓘ |
| businessModel | data-driven services and partnerships ⓘ |
| companionTo |
Foursquare City Guide
ⓘ
linked to:
Foursquare
|
| dataCollected |
movement history
ⓘ
time of visit ⓘ user location ⓘ venue visited ⓘ |
| developer |
Foursquare Labs Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Foursquare
|
| feature |
check-ins
ⓘ
coins and points system ⓘ friends list ⓘ leaderboards ⓘ lifelogging of movements ⓘ location sharing ⓘ mayorships ⓘ nearby friends notifications ⓘ place history ⓘ private check-ins ⓘ sharing check-ins to social networks ⓘ stickers ⓘ |
| focus |
personal lifelogging of visited places
ⓘ
social location sharing with friends ⓘ |
| genre |
lifelogging
ⓘ
location-based service ⓘ social location sharing ⓘ |
| integration |
Foursquare account system
ⓘ
social networks such as Facebook ⓘ social networks such as Twitter ⓘ |
| monetization | indirect via Foursquare location intelligence products ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| platform | mobile ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
allow users to check in to places
ⓘ
enable social interaction around location ⓘ track user movements over time ⓘ |
| privacyControl |
user can choose who sees check-ins
ⓘ
user can set sharing to private ⓘ |
| publisher |
Foursquare Labs Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Foursquare
|
| replacedFunctionalityOf | check-in features of the original Foursquare app ⓘ |
| supports | venue search via Foursquare database ⓘ |
| targetUser |
consumers using smartphones
ⓘ
people interested in tracking their movements ⓘ people who want to share location with friends ⓘ |
| uses |
Foursquare places database
ⓘ
linked to:
Foursquare
|
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: Swarm Description of subject: Swarm is Foursquare’s companion mobile app focused on lifelogging and social location sharing, allowing users to check in to places, track their movements, and connect with friends.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.