Ingres Corporation
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Ingres Corporation is a software company best known for developing and commercializing the Ingres relational database management system, one of the early pioneers in the SQL database market.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ingres Corporation canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2752801 — 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: Ingres Corporation Context triple: [INGRES relational database system, commercializedBy, Ingres Corporation]
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A.
Shorenstein Company
Shorenstein Company is a prominent privately held real estate investment and development firm based in San Francisco, known for owning and managing major commercial office properties across the United States.
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B.
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation is a pioneering American company in computer graphics and simulation technology, known for its advanced visual systems and contributions to virtual reality and flight simulation.
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C.
Carsey-Werner Company
Carsey-Werner Company is an American television production company best known for creating and producing hit sitcoms such as The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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D.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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E.
Stanwell
Stanwell is a village in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England, located near Heathrow Airport on the western edge of Greater London.
- 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: Ingres Corporation Target entity description: Ingres Corporation is a software company best known for developing and commercializing the Ingres relational database management system, one of the early pioneers in the SQL database market.
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A.
Shorenstein Company
Shorenstein Company is a prominent privately held real estate investment and development firm based in San Francisco, known for owning and managing major commercial office properties across the United States.
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B.
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation is a pioneering American company in computer graphics and simulation technology, known for its advanced visual systems and contributions to virtual reality and flight simulation.
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C.
Carsey-Werner Company
Carsey-Werner Company is an American television production company best known for creating and producing hit sitcoms such as The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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D.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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E.
Stanwell
Stanwell is a village in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England, located near Heathrow Airport on the western edge of Greater London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Actian
ⓘ
surface form:
Actian Corporation
Computer Associates International ⓘ |
| basedOn |
INGRES relational database system
ⓘ
surface form:
Ingres research database system
|
| category |
Database management system vendors
ⓘ
Enterprise software companies ⓘ Relational database companies ⓘ |
| competesWith |
IBM DB2
ⓘ
surface form:
IBM Db2
SQL Server ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus |
enterprise data management
ⓘ
open standards ⓘ |
| formerName | Relational Technology Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedFrom | Ingres project commercialisation ⓘ |
| hasDatabaseEngine |
INGRES relational database system
ⓘ
surface form:
Ingres DBMS engine
|
| hasDerivative |
Actian
ⓘ
surface form:
Actian X (hybrid database combining Ingres and VectorWise)
|
| hasKeyProductType |
analytic database
ⓘ
embedded database ⓘ relational DBMS ⓘ |
| hasProgrammingLanguageSupport |
OpenROAD
ⓘ
surface form:
OpenROAD 4GL
|
| implements | relational model ⓘ |
| industry |
database software
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
INGRES relational database system
ⓘ
surface form:
Ingres relational database management system
|
| licenseModel |
commercial
ⓘ
open source (for some versions of Ingres) ⓘ |
| notableProject | commercialisation of Ingres DBMS ⓘ |
| offers |
commercial support for Ingres DBMS
ⓘ
database development tools ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Ingres research project at University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| predecessor | Relational Technology Inc. ⓘ |
| product |
Actian
ⓘ
surface form:
Actian X
Ingres ⓘ OpenROAD ⓘ VectorWise ⓘ |
| roleInIndustry | early pioneer in SQL database market ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
SQL databases
ⓘ
relational database management systems ⓘ |
| supports |
OLAP workloads
ⓘ
OLTP workloads ⓘ |
| supportsStandard | SQL ⓘ |
| targetCustomer | enterprise customers ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
data warehousing
ⓘ
database management ⓘ |
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: Ingres Corporation Description of subject: Ingres Corporation is a software company best known for developing and commercializing the Ingres relational database management system, one of the early pioneers in the SQL database market.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.