TSMC
E38958
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for producing cutting-edge chips for major technology companies.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TSMC canonical | 30 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company | 3 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 3 |
| TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) | 1 |
| TSMC N5 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T300061 — 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: TSMC Context triple: [Apple M1, foundry, TSMC]
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A.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company best known for designing Snapdragon mobile processors and developing key wireless technologies such as 3G, 4G, and 5G.
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B.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
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C.
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation is a leading American technology company best known for designing powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI computing platforms used in gaming, data centers, and high-performance computing.
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D.
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is a leading American semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors that power the majority of the world’s personal computers and servers.
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E.
Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
- 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: TSMC Target entity description: TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for producing cutting-edge chips for major technology companies.
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A.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company best known for designing Snapdragon mobile processors and developing key wireless technologies such as 3G, 4G, and 5G.
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B.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
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C.
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation is a leading American technology company best known for designing powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI computing platforms used in gaming, data centers, and high-performance computing.
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D.
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is a leading American semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors that power the majority of the world’s personal computers and servers.
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E.
Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
ⓘ
public company ⓘ semiconductor foundry ⓘ |
| businessModel | pure-play foundry ⓘ |
| country |
Taiwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Formosa
|
| develops | 2 nm process technology ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Morris Chang ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
ⓘ
linked to:
TSMC
|
| hasFacility |
fabs in China
ⓘ
fabs in Japan ⓘ fabs in Taiwan ⓘ fabs in the United States ⓘ |
| hasRAndDCenter | Hsinchu, Taiwan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Hsinchu, Taiwan ⓘ |
| industry |
contract chip manufacturing
ⓘ
semiconductors ⓘ |
| isLargest | dedicated semiconductor foundry in the world ⓘ |
| keyCustomerType | major global technology companies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-volume advanced node production
ⓘ
leading-edge chip manufacturing ⓘ strong manufacturing yield ⓘ |
| offersTechnologyNode |
3 nm process
ⓘ
5 nm process ⓘ 7 nm process ⓘ |
| playsRole | critical supplier in global electronics supply chain ⓘ |
| producesFor |
fabless semiconductor companies
ⓘ
integrated device manufacturers ⓘ |
| providesService |
backend services through partners
ⓘ
mask services ⓘ wafer fabrication ⓘ |
| servesSector |
Internet of Things
ⓘ
automotive electronics ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ smartphones ⓘ |
| shortName | TSMC ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
advanced process technologies
ⓘ
integrated circuit manufacturing ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing |
New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
Taiwan Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| stockTicker |
2330.TW
ⓘ
TSM ⓘ |
| supplies |
AI accelerators
ⓘ
application processors ⓘ baseband chips ⓘ graphics processors ⓘ microcontrollers ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | extreme ultraviolet lithography ⓘ |
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: TSMC Description of subject: TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, renowned for producing cutting-edge chips for major technology companies.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: TSMC
subject linked to:
ASML (nearby Veldhoven, economic cluster)
Republic of China (Taiwan)
→
majorCompanyHeadquartered
→
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
ⓘ
subject linked to:
ROC (Taiwan)
linked to: TSMC
subject linked to:
Hsinchu, Taiwan
linked to: TSMC
linked to: TSMC
linked to: TSMC
linked to: TSMC
linked to: TSMC
subject linked to:
A17 Pro