Cloudflare
E96228
content delivery network provider
internet security company
technology company
web infrastructure company
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare canonical | 4 |
| Cloudflare Access | 1 |
| Cloudflare CDN | 1 |
| Cloudflare DNS | 1 |
| Cloudflare Gateway | 1 |
| Cloudflare Spectrum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T815831 — 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: Cloudflare Context triple: [Go, notableUser, Cloudflare]
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A.
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a cloud-delivered DNS and security service provider known for web filtering, phishing protection, and enterprise network security solutions.
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B.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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C.
VeriSign
VeriSign is an American technology company best known for operating key internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains and providing critical DNS and security services.
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D.
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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E.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
- 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: Cloudflare Target entity description: Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
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A.
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a cloud-delivered DNS and security service provider known for web filtering, phishing protection, and enterprise network security solutions.
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B.
Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
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C.
VeriSign
VeriSign is an American technology company best known for operating key internet infrastructure, including managing the .com and .net top-level domains and providing critical DNS and security services.
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D.
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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E.
Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies is a U.S.-based telecommunications and technology company that provides internet, networking, cloud, and security services to businesses and consumers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
content delivery network provider
ⓘ
internet security company ⓘ technology company ⓘ web infrastructure company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deploymentModel | cloud-based service ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Lee Holloway
ⓘ
Matthew Prince ⓘ Michelle Zatlyn ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
cybersecurity ⓘ internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| launchedService | 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver ⓘ |
| networkType | anycast network ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver
ⓘ
DDoS mitigation at large scale ⓘ global anycast network ⓘ |
| offersService |
API security
ⓘ
DDoS protection ⓘ DNS hosting ⓘ SSL/TLS encryption ⓘ bot management ⓘ content delivery network ⓘ domain registration ⓘ edge computing platform ⓘ email security ⓘ load balancing ⓘ reverse proxy ⓘ serverless computing ⓘ web application firewall ⓘ zero trust security services ⓘ |
| product |
Cloudflare Access
ⓘ
linked to:
Cloudflare
Cloudflare CDN ⓘ
linked to:
Cloudflare
Cloudflare DNS ⓘ
linked to:
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Gateway ⓘ
linked to:
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Magic Transit ⓘ Cloudflare Pages ⓘ Cloudflare R2 ⓘ Cloudflare Spectrum ⓘ
linked to:
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Stream ⓘ Cloudflare Turnstile ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
Cloudflare Workers ⓘ Cloudflare Zaraz ⓘ |
| provides |
performance optimization for websites
ⓘ
security for web applications ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| targetUser |
APIs
ⓘ
web applications ⓘ websites ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | NET ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cloudflare.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: Cloudflare Description of subject: Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cloudflare
linked to: Cloudflare
linked to: Cloudflare
linked to: Cloudflare
linked to: Cloudflare