Palm, Inc.
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Palm, Inc. was a pioneering American company best known for developing early personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones such as the PalmPilot and the webOS-based Palm Pre.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palm, Inc. canonical | 9 |
| Palm Computing | 7 |
| Palm, Inc. (initially as Palm Computing) | 1 |
| PalmSource | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5757591 — 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: Palm, Inc. Context triple: [Jon Rubinstein, employer, Palm, Inc.]
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A.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
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B.
BlackBerry Limited
BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian technology company best known for its pioneering smartphones and secure communications software.
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C.
PalmStar Media
PalmStar Media is a film production company known for financing and producing independent and prestige movies, including the acclaimed horror film "Hereditary."
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D.
Perot Systems
Perot Systems was an American information technology services and consulting company founded by Ross Perot that provided outsourcing, systems integration, and technology solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.
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E.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
- 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: Palm, Inc. Target entity description: Palm, Inc. was a pioneering American company best known for developing early personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones such as the PalmPilot and the webOS-based Palm Pre.
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A.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a pioneering American technology company known for its innovations in computing, printers, and enterprise IT solutions.
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B.
BlackBerry Limited
BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian technology company best known for its pioneering smartphones and secure communications software.
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C.
PalmStar Media
PalmStar Media is a film production company known for financing and producing independent and prestige movies, including the acclaimed horror film "Hereditary."
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D.
Perot Systems
Perot Systems was an American information technology services and consulting company founded by Ross Perot that provided outsourcing, systems integration, and technology solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.
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E.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
consumer electronics company
ⓘ
mobile device manufacturer ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
3Com
ⓘ
Hewlett-Packard ⓘ U.S. Robotics ⓘ |
| acquisitionDateByHewlett-Packard | 2010 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developedPlatform | Palm Desktop software ⓘ |
| developedTechnology | HotSync synchronization technology ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Donna Dubinsky
ⓘ
Ed Colligan ⓘ Jeff Hawkins ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Milpitas, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Milpitas, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
|
| industry |
personal digital assistants
ⓘ
smartphones ⓘ |
| introducedProduct |
Palm Pre in 2009
ⓘ
PalmPilot in 1996 ⓘ
linked to:
PalmPilot
|
| keyPerson |
Donna Dubinsky
ⓘ
Ed Colligan ⓘ Jeff Hawkins ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
launch of PalmPilot established PDA market
ⓘ
launch of webOS with Palm Pre in 2009 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Graffiti handwriting recognition system
ⓘ
developing early smartphones ⓘ popularizing PDAs in the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Palm Centro
ⓘ
Palm III ⓘ
linked to:
Palm III series
Palm Pixi ⓘ Palm Pre ⓘ Palm Treo ⓘ
linked to:
Handspring Treo
Palm Tungsten series ⓘ Palm V ⓘ
linked to:
Palm V series
Palm m100 series ⓘ PalmPilot ⓘ |
| operatingSystemDeveloped |
Palm OS
ⓘ
webOS ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Hewlett-Packard after 2010 acquisition ⓘ |
| productCategory |
PDAs
ⓘ
handheld computers ⓘ smartphones ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| successor |
HP webOS
ⓘ
linked to:
webOS
webOS Global (later owners of webOS) ⓘ
linked to:
webOS
|
| tickerSymbol | PALM ⓘ |
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: Palm, Inc. Description of subject: Palm, Inc. was a pioneering American company best known for developing early personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones such as the PalmPilot and the webOS-based Palm Pre.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Palm, Inc.
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linked to: Palm, Inc.
linked to: Palm, Inc.