MySQL AB
E428638
MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4278959 — 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: MySQL AB Context triple: [Michael Widenius, employer, MySQL AB]
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A.
MySQL
MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system known for its reliability, performance, and role in powering many web applications and services.
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B.
MariaDB
MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, forked from MySQL, known for its compatibility, performance, and community-driven development.
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C.
MariaDB Corporation
MariaDB Corporation is a software company that develops and supports the MariaDB open-source relational database, a popular alternative to MySQL for enterprise and cloud applications.
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D.
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development, governance, and community ecosystem of the open-source MariaDB database.
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E.
InnoDB storage engine
InnoDB storage engine is a widely used transactional storage engine for MySQL that provides ACID compliance, row-level locking, and crash recovery for reliable, high-performance database operations.
- 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: MySQL AB Target entity description: MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
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A.
MySQL
MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system known for its reliability, performance, and role in powering many web applications and services.
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B.
MariaDB
MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, forked from MySQL, known for its compatibility, performance, and community-driven development.
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C.
MariaDB Corporation
MariaDB Corporation is a software company that develops and supports the MariaDB open-source relational database, a popular alternative to MySQL for enterprise and cloud applications.
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D.
MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development, governance, and community ecosystem of the open-source MariaDB database.
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E.
InnoDB storage engine
InnoDB storage engine is a widely used transactional storage engine for MySQL that provides ACID compliance, row-level locking, and crash recovery for reliable, high-performance database operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
privately held company
ⓘ
software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 1000000000 USD ⓘ |
| businessModel |
dual licensing
ⓘ
support and services ⓘ |
| ceasedToExist | after 2008 acquisition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| developed |
MySQL database server
ⓘ
linked to:
MySQL
|
| employed | developers of MySQL ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Allan Larsson
ⓘ
David Axmark ⓘ Michael Widenius ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Cupertino, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Cupertino
Stockholm, Sweden ⓘ
linked to:
Stockholm
Uppsala, Sweden ⓘ
linked to:
Uppsala
|
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry |
database software
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| licenseManagedForProduct | commercial MySQL licenses ⓘ |
| notableEmployee |
David Axmark
ⓘ
Martensson Allan Larsson ⓘ
linked to:
Allan Larsson
Monty Widenius ⓘ
linked to:
Michael Widenius
|
| notableFor | developing the MySQL open-source RDBMS ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | 400+ ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployeesDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| offered |
MySQL Enterprise Edition
ⓘ
MySQL Network subscription ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguageOfProduct |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| product | MySQL ⓘ |
| productType | relational database management system ⓘ |
| provided |
certification for MySQL
ⓘ
commercial support for MySQL ⓘ consulting services for MySQL ⓘ training for MySQL ⓘ |
| softwareLicenseManaged | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| successor |
Oracle Corporation (MySQL division)
ⓘ
linked to:
Oracle Corporation
|
| supportedProject |
MySQL Community Edition
ⓘ
linked to:
MySQL
|
| targetCustomer |
enterprises
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ web hosting providers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mysql.com ⓘ |
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: MySQL AB Description of subject: MySQL AB was the Swedish company that developed and commercially supported the popular open-source MySQL relational database management system.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MySQL AB