Relational Technology Inc.
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Relational Technology Inc. was a pioneering software company best known for developing and marketing the INGRES relational database system, one of the early commercial SQL-based databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Relational Technology Inc. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2752800 — 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: Relational Technology Inc. Context triple: [INGRES relational database system, commercializedBy, Relational Technology Inc.]
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A.
Relational Software Inc.
Relational Software Inc. was the early name of the company that eventually became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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B.
Jasper Technologies
Jasper Technologies is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider known for enabling companies to manage and monetize connected devices and services.
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C.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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D.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
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E.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
- 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: Relational Technology Inc. Target entity description: Relational Technology Inc. was a pioneering software company best known for developing and marketing the INGRES relational database system, one of the early commercial SQL-based databases.
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A.
Relational Software Inc.
Relational Software Inc. was the early name of the company that eventually became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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B.
Jasper Technologies
Jasper Technologies is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider known for enabling companies to manage and monetize connected devices and services.
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C.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
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D.
Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation was the temporary name used by software company Borland during a late-1990s rebranding focused on enterprise solutions.
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E.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies is an American software company specializing in big data analytics platforms used by governments and large enterprises for intelligence, security, and operational decision-making.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
database company
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software company ⓘ |
| basedOn |
SQL
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relational model ⓘ |
| commercialized | INGRES relational database system ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developed |
INGRES
ⓘ
INGRES relational database system ⓘ |
| field |
database software
ⓘ
relational database management systems ⓘ |
| focus |
enterprise database systems
ⓘ
relational database technology ⓘ |
| hasDatabaseModel | relational ⓘ |
| hasProductType | relational database management system ⓘ |
| industry |
information technology
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing the INGRES relational database system
ⓘ
marketing the INGRES relational database system ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helping to commercialize relational database technology ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the early commercial SQL-based database vendors ⓘ |
| notableWork | INGRES ⓘ |
| positionInHistory |
one of the early commercial SQL-based database companies
ⓘ
one of the pioneers of commercial relational database systems ⓘ |
| product | INGRES relational database system ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | database management system ⓘ |
| technologyArea | SQL-based databases ⓘ |
| usesProgrammingLanguage | SQL ⓘ |
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: Relational Technology Inc. Description of subject: Relational Technology Inc. was a pioneering software company best known for developing and marketing the INGRES relational database system, one of the early commercial SQL-based databases.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.