Factual
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Factual was a location data company known for providing global places and movement data used in advertising, mobile apps, and analytics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Factual canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9741367 — 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: Factual Context triple: [Foursquare, acquired, Factual]
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A.
FACT
FACT is the ICAO airport code assigned to Cape Town International Airport in South Africa.
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B.
True
"True" is a 1983 soft rock ballad by British band Spandau Ballet, widely recognized as their signature hit and a classic of the New Romantic era.
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C.
True
"True" is a song featured on the album "Human" by the British singer and songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man.
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D.
Facts and Propositions
Facts and Propositions is a 1927 philosophical work by F. P. Ramsey that develops an influential account of truth, belief, and the nature of propositions within analytic philosophy.
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E.
Facta Non Verba
Facta Non Verba is the Latin motto of Canada's elite special operations unit Joint Task Force 2, emphasizing action over words.
- 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: Factual Target entity description: Factual was a location data company known for providing global places and movement data used in advertising, mobile apps, and analytics.
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A.
FACT
FACT is the ICAO airport code assigned to Cape Town International Airport in South Africa.
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B.
True
"True" is a 1983 soft rock ballad by British band Spandau Ballet, widely recognized as their signature hit and a classic of the New Romantic era.
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C.
True
"True" is a song featured on the album "Human" by the British singer and songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man.
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D.
Facts and Propositions
Facts and Propositions is a 1927 philosophical work by F. P. Ramsey that develops an influential account of truth, belief, and the nature of propositions within analytic philosophy.
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E.
Facta Non Verba
Facta Non Verba is the Latin motto of Canada's elite special operations unit Joint Task Force 2, emphasizing action over words.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
location data company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Foursquare ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2020 ⓘ |
| clientType |
advertisers
ⓘ
agencies ⓘ enterprises ⓘ mobile app developers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| dataCoverage | global ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
consumer location behavior
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movement patterns ⓘ places data ⓘ points of interest data ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Gil Elbaz ⓘ |
| founder | Gil Elbaz ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Los Angeles ⓘ New York City ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ Singapore ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| industry |
data analytics
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location data ⓘ mobile advertising ⓘ |
| knownFor |
global places database
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high-quality location data ⓘ movement data for ad targeting ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Foursquare ⓘ |
| operatingStatus | acquired ⓘ |
| productOrService |
audience targeting solutions
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data enrichment services ⓘ developer APIs ⓘ global places data ⓘ location data ⓘ movement data ⓘ |
| provides |
APIs for location data
ⓘ
SDKs for mobile apps ⓘ |
| targetMarket | global ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analytics
ⓘ
business intelligence ⓘ location-based advertising ⓘ mobile advertising ⓘ mobile applications ⓘ |
| website | https://www.factual.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: Factual Description of subject: Factual was a location data company known for providing global places and movement data used in advertising, mobile apps, and analytics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.