Red Hat
E5668
Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Hat canonical | 57 |
| Red Hat JBoss Middleware | 2 |
| Red Hat, Inc. | 2 |
| Red Hat Engineering | 1 |
| Red Hat Global Services | 1 |
| Red Hat OpenShift | 1 |
| Red Hat Sales | 1 |
| Red Hat cloud products | 1 |
| Red Hat support services | 1 |
| Red Hat systems | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T55779 — 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: Red Hat Context triple: [IBM, subsidiary, Red Hat]
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A.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
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B.
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is a major American multinational technology company best known for its database software, cloud services, and enterprise software products.
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C.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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D.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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E.
BEA
BEA is a U.S. government agency that produces key economic statistics, including measures of national income, output, and growth.
- 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: Red Hat Target entity description: Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
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A.
IBM
IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its pioneering work in computer hardware, software, and enterprise services.
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B.
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is a major American multinational technology company best known for its database software, cloud services, and enterprise software products.
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C.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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D.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open-source company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ software company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | IBM ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| businessModel |
subscription model
ⓘ
support and services ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
Fedora Linux
ⓘ
Kubernetes ⓘ Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel
|
| coreBusiness |
IT automation
ⓘ
Kubernetes-based platforms ⓘ application middleware ⓘ cloud infrastructure solutions ⓘ enterprise Linux distribution ⓘ subscription-based software support ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
DevOps solutions
ⓘ
container orchestration ⓘ enterprise customers ⓘ hybrid cloud ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bob Young
ⓘ
Marc Ewing ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Red Hat
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Red Hat Engineering
Red Hat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Red Hat Global Services
Red Hat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Red Hat Sales
|
| headquartersLocation |
Raleigh
ⓘ
surface form:
Raleigh, North Carolina
|
| inception | 1993 ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
enterprise software ⓘ middleware ⓘ open-source software ⓘ software ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Fedora Linux
ⓘ
surface form:
Fedora Project
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform ⓘ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ Red Hat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Red Hat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenStack Platform ⓘ Red Hat Satellite ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily | Linux ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | IBM ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf | IBM ⓘ |
| supportsModel | open-source development model ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | RHT ⓘ |
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: Red Hat Description of subject: Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Red Hat OpenShift
this entity surface form:
Red Hat JBoss Middleware
this entity surface form:
Red Hat Global Services
this entity surface form:
Red Hat Engineering
this entity surface form:
Red Hat Sales
this entity surface form:
Red Hat JBoss Middleware
this entity surface form:
Red Hat, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Red Hat cloud products
this entity surface form:
Red Hat support services