Monty Program AB
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Monty Program AB was a software company created by MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius to continue development of the open-source MariaDB database after Oracle acquired MySQL.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monty Program AB canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4278953 — 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: Monty Program AB Context triple: [Michael Widenius, founded, Monty Program AB]
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A.
Pandox AB
Pandox AB is a Swedish hotel property company that owns and manages a large portfolio of hotel real estate across Europe.
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B.
Niconovum AB
Niconovum AB is a Swedish company that develops and markets nicotine replacement therapy products such as gums, lozenges, and inhalers.
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C.
Kockums AB
Kockums AB was a Swedish shipbuilding company best known for designing and constructing naval vessels, including submarines, before becoming part of Saab Kockums.
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D.
Barunson E&A
Barunson E&A is a South Korean film production company best known internationally for producing Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award–winning film "Parasite."
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E.
Boxtel
Boxtel is a town and municipality in the southern Netherlands known for its historic center and location between the cities of Eindhoven and ’s-Hertogenbosch.
- 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: Monty Program AB Target entity description: Monty Program AB was a software company created by MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius to continue development of the open-source MariaDB database after Oracle acquired MySQL.
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A.
Pandox AB
Pandox AB is a Swedish hotel property company that owns and manages a large portfolio of hotel real estate across Europe.
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B.
Niconovum AB
Niconovum AB is a Swedish company that develops and markets nicotine replacement therapy products such as gums, lozenges, and inhalers.
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C.
Kockums AB
Kockums AB was a Swedish shipbuilding company best known for designing and constructing naval vessels, including submarines, before becoming part of Saab Kockums.
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D.
Barunson E&A
Barunson E&A is a South Korean film production company best known internationally for producing Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award–winning film "Parasite."
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E.
Boxtel
Boxtel is a town and municipality in the southern Netherlands known for its historic center and location between the cities of Eindhoven and ’s-Hertogenbosch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
MariaDB Foundation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
open source community ⓘ |
| basedOn | MySQL codebase ⓘ |
| businessModel | support and services for MariaDB ⓘ |
| country | Finland ⓘ |
| developedFrom | MySQL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| develops | MariaDB server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employs | original MySQL developers ⓘ |
| focus | open-source database development ⓘ |
| founder |
Michael Widenius
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monty Widenius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal | to provide a community-driven alternative to MySQL ⓘ |
| industry |
database software
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Michael Widenius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| licenseModel | open source ⓘ |
| notableWork | MariaDB relational database management system ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| opposes | proprietary control of MySQL by Oracle ⓘ |
| product | MariaDB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| purpose |
to continue development of MariaDB
ⓘ
to continue development of MySQL fork MariaDB ⓘ |
| reasonForCreation | Oracle Corporation acquisition of MySQL AB ⓘ |
| softwareType | relational database management system ⓘ |
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: Monty Program AB Description of subject: Monty Program AB was a software company created by MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius to continue development of the open-source MariaDB database after Oracle acquired MySQL.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.