Infocom
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Infocom was a pioneering American software company best known for its influential text adventure games in the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Infocom canonical | 43 |
| Infocom grey box | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1271188 — 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: Infocom Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game), developer, Infocom]
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A.
Telcordia Technologies
Telcordia Technologies is a telecommunications research and development company known for creating industry standards and software solutions for network planning, management, and operations.
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B.
BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is an American research and development company renowned for its pioneering work in computer networking and its key role in creating the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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D.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
Massachusetts Computer Associates was a pioneering computer science research and software development company active in the 1960s–1970s, known for employing influential computer scientists such as Leslie Lamport.
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E.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
- 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: Infocom Target entity description: Infocom was a pioneering American software company best known for its influential text adventure games in the 1980s.
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A.
Telcordia Technologies
Telcordia Technologies is a telecommunications research and development company known for creating industry standards and software solutions for network planning, management, and operations.
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B.
BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is an American research and development company renowned for its pioneering work in computer networking and its key role in creating the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
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D.
Massachusetts Computer Associates
Massachusetts Computer Associates was a pioneering computer science research and software development company active in the 1960s–1970s, known for employing influential computer scientists such as Leslie Lamport.
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E.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Infocom Description of subject: Infocom was a pioneering American software company best known for its influential text adventure games in the 1980s.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.