Yahoo! Search
E95197
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yahoo! Search canonical | 6 |
| Yahoo Search | 3 |
| Yahoo! Search Marketing | 2 |
| Yahoo Search mobile app | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805301 — 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: Yahoo! Search Context triple: [AltaVista, competitor, Yahoo! Search]
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A.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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B.
Google Search
Google Search is a widely used web search engine developed by Google that allows users to find information, websites, images, and other content across the internet.
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C.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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D.
AltaVista
AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
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E.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
- 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: Yahoo! Search Target entity description: Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
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A.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's web search engine that provides internet search, image, video, and mapping services.
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B.
Google Search
Google Search is a widely used web search engine developed by Google that allows users to find information, websites, images, and other content across the internet.
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C.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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D.
AltaVista
AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
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E.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yahoo! service
ⓘ
web search engine ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | Yahoo ⓘ |
| feature |
advanced search options
ⓘ
autocomplete ⓘ image search filters ⓘ news search ⓘ safe search filtering ⓘ search advertising ⓘ search suggestions ⓘ video search filters ⓘ |
| formerName |
Yahoo! Search Marketing
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo! Search
|
| genre | search engine ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Baidu
ⓘ
Bing ⓘ DuckDuckGo ⓘ Google Search ⓘ Yandex ⓘ |
| industry | web search ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Yahoo! Answers
ⓘ
Yahoo! Mail ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo! News ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo News
Yahoo! homepage ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo homepage
|
| launchPeriod | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| monetization |
display advertising
ⓘ
search ads ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a major internet gateway in the early web era ⓘ |
| operator | Yahoo ⓘ |
| owner | Yahoo ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Yahoo Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| platform |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ mobile web ⓘ web ⓘ |
| searchResultsPoweredBy |
Microsoft Bing
ⓘ
linked to:
Bing
|
| supports |
language-specific search
ⓘ
phrase search ⓘ query operators ⓘ region-specific search ⓘ |
| typeOfResult |
images
ⓘ
local results ⓘ news ⓘ shopping results ⓘ videos ⓘ web pages ⓘ |
| usesSearchTechnologyFrom | Bing ⓘ |
| wasOneOf |
most popular web search engines in the early 2000s
ⓘ
most popular web search engines in the late 1990s ⓘ |
| website | https://search.yahoo.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: Yahoo! Search Description of subject: Yahoo! Search is a web search engine developed by Yahoo that was once one of the most popular gateways for finding information on the internet.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yahoo! Search
subject linked to:
Ask Jeeves (search engine brand name)
linked to: Yahoo! Search
linked to: Yahoo! Search
linked to: Yahoo! Search
linked to: Yahoo! Search