EMC Corporation
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EMC Corporation was a leading American multinational company specializing in data storage, information security, and cloud computing solutions before its acquisition by Dell.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EMC Corporation canonical | 5 |
| Dell EMC | 1 |
| EMC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1558886 — 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: EMC Corporation Context triple: [Pat Gelsinger, employer, EMC Corporation]
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A.
Pure Storage
Pure Storage is an American data storage company known for its enterprise flash storage hardware and software solutions.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
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D.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
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E.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
- 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: EMC Corporation Target entity description: EMC Corporation was a leading American multinational company specializing in data storage, information security, and cloud computing solutions before its acquisition by Dell.
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A.
Pure Storage
Pure Storage is an American data storage company known for its enterprise flash storage hardware and software solutions.
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B.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is a leading American data storage company best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage solutions for consumer and enterprise markets.
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C.
Western Digital
Western Digital is a major American data storage company known for manufacturing hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and related storage solutions for consumers and enterprises.
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D.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
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E.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
ⓘ
public company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Dell
ⓘ
surface form:
Dell Inc.
Dell ⓘ
surface form:
Dell Technologies
|
| acquisitionAnnouncedOn | 2015-10-12 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompletedOn | 2016-09-07 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 67000000000 USD ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
data protection solutions
ⓘ
enterprise data storage systems ⓘ information infrastructure ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defunctDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| fate | merged into Dell Technologies ⓘ |
| formerName | EMC2 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Curly
ⓘ
Richard Egan ⓘ Roger Marino ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Hopkinton, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
computer hardware ⓘ computer software ⓘ data storage ⓘ information security ⓘ |
| notableClientSegment |
enterprise customers
ⓘ
government organizations ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationAfter2016 |
Dell
ⓘ
surface form:
Dell Technologies
|
| product |
Avamar
ⓘ
CLARiiON ⓘ Data Domain ⓘ Documentum ⓘ Greenplum ⓘ Isilon ⓘ NetWorker ⓘ Symmetrix ⓘ VMAX ⓘ VNX ⓘ XtremIO ⓘ |
| status | defunct as independent company ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Iomega
ⓘ
Pivotal Software ⓘ RSA Security ⓘ VMware ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
EMC Corporation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
EMC
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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: EMC Corporation Description of subject: EMC Corporation was a leading American multinational company specializing in data storage, information security, and cloud computing solutions before its acquisition by Dell.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
EMC
this entity surface form:
Dell EMC