Cray Inc.
E364147
Cray Inc. is an American company renowned for designing and building high-performance supercomputers used in scientific research, government, and industry.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cray Inc. canonical | 5 |
| Cray Research | 2 |
| CRAY | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3501236 — 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: Cray Inc. Context triple: [Blue Waters, manufacturer, Cray Inc.]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Unisys
Unisys is an American global information technology company known for providing IT services, software, and infrastructure solutions to government and commercial clients.
-
C.
Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
-
D.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
-
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: Cray Inc. Target entity description: Cray Inc. is an American company renowned for designing and building high-performance supercomputers used in scientific research, government, and industry.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Unisys
Unisys is an American global information technology company known for providing IT services, software, and infrastructure solutions to government and commercial clients.
-
C.
Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
-
D.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
-
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 (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
supercomputer manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Hewlett Packard Enterprise ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| brand | Cray ⓘ |
| computingParadigm | high-performance computing (HPC) ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | supercomputing innovation ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Seymour Cray ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Seymour Cray ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiaryHistory |
Cray Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cray Research
|
| headquartersLocation | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
computer hardware
ⓘ
high-performance computing ⓘ supercomputers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing supercomputers
ⓘ
high-performance computing systems ⓘ |
| notableCustomer |
U.S. Department of Energy
ⓘ
national laboratories in the United States ⓘ weather forecasting centers ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Hewlett Packard Enterprise ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Cray Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cray Research
|
| product |
Cray CS-Storm
ⓘ
Cray CS400 ⓘ Cray ClusterStor ⓘ Cray T3E ⓘ Cray Urika-GX ⓘ Cray Urika-GX ⓘ
surface form:
Cray Urika-XA
Cray X-MP ⓘ Cray XC30 ⓘ Cray XC40 ⓘ Cray XC50 ⓘ Cray XE6 ⓘ Cray XK7 ⓘ Cray XT3 ⓘ Cray XT4 ⓘ Cray XT5 ⓘ Cray Y-MP ⓘ Cray-1 ⓘ Cray-2 ⓘ |
| servesSector |
government
ⓘ
industry ⓘ scientific research ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| technology |
high-speed interconnects
ⓘ
massively parallel processing ⓘ vector processing ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
Cray Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CRAY
|
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: Cray Inc. Description of subject: Cray Inc. is an American company renowned for designing and building high-performance supercomputers used in scientific research, government, and industry.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cray Research
this entity surface form:
CRAY
this entity surface form:
Cray Research