Cornerstone business software division
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Cornerstone business software division was a unit of Infocom focused on developing business-oriented software rather than the company’s well-known interactive fiction games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornerstone business software division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5513644 — 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: Cornerstone business software division Context triple: [Infocom, hadDivision, Cornerstone business software division]
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A.
Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software was a leading American provider of cloud-based human capital management and payroll software solutions for businesses.
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B.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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C.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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D.
Appirio
Appirio is a cloud services and consulting company known for helping enterprises implement and optimize platforms like Salesforce and Workday.
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E.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
- 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: Cornerstone business software division Target entity description: Cornerstone business software division was a unit of Infocom focused on developing business-oriented software rather than the company’s well-known interactive fiction games.
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A.
Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software was a leading American provider of cloud-based human capital management and payroll software solutions for businesses.
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B.
Wyatt Software
Wyatt Software was a software company known for employing pioneering programmer Ward Cunningham early in his career.
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C.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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D.
Appirio
Appirio is a cloud services and consulting company known for helping enterprises implement and optimize platforms like Salesforce and Workday.
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E.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems was a leading enterprise software company best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for large organizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business software unit
ⓘ
software development division ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| businessModel | commercial packaged software ⓘ |
| competition |
Lotus 1-2-3
ⓘ
dBASE ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Infocom financial difficulties ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distinguishedBy | non-game software development ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Infocom interactive fiction division
ⓘ
linked to:
Infocom art department
|
| focus |
business-oriented software
ⓘ
database software ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| marketSegment | small and medium-sized businesses ⓘ |
| notableFor | development of Cornerstone database ⓘ |
| operatedDuring | 1980s ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Infocom ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Infocom ⓘ |
| partOf | Infocom business products strategy ⓘ |
| platform |
IBM PC
ⓘ
MS-DOS ⓘ |
| productDeveloped | Cornerstone ⓘ |
| productType | relational database management system ⓘ |
| reasonForCreation | to diversify Infocom beyond interactive fiction games ⓘ |
| softwareCategory | productivity software ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetUser | business users ⓘ |
| technologyFocus | 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: Cornerstone business software division Description of subject: Cornerstone business software division was a unit of Infocom focused on developing business-oriented software rather than the company’s well-known interactive fiction games.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.