KLA Corporation
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KLA Corporation is a leading American company that provides process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KLA Corporation canonical | 4 |
| KLA Instruments | 1 |
| KLA-Tencor Corporation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6731913 — 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: KLA Corporation Context triple: [Lam Research, competesWith, KLA Corporation]
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A.
Wilson Semiconductors
"Wilson Semiconductors" is an album by the experimental rock band The Howling Hex, known for their unconventional song structures and lo-fi aesthetic.
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B.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
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C.
Nichia Corporation
Nichia Corporation is a Japanese chemical and electronics company best known as a leading manufacturer of LEDs and phosphors, including pioneering work in blue and white light-emitting diodes.
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D.
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics was a major semiconductor company formed by the merger of Italy’s SGS Microelettronica and France’s Thomson Semiconducteurs, later renamed STMicroelectronics.
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E.
Sogitec Industries
Sogitec Industries is a French company specializing in simulation, training systems, and technical publications, particularly for the aerospace and defense sectors.
- 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: KLA Corporation Target entity description: KLA Corporation is a leading American company that provides process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries.
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A.
Wilson Semiconductors
"Wilson Semiconductors" is an album by the experimental rock band The Howling Hex, known for their unconventional song structures and lo-fi aesthetic.
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B.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
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C.
Nichia Corporation
Nichia Corporation is a Japanese chemical and electronics company best known as a leading manufacturer of LEDs and phosphors, including pioneering work in blue and white light-emitting diodes.
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D.
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics was a major semiconductor company formed by the merger of Italy’s SGS Microelettronica and France’s Thomson Semiconducteurs, later renamed STMicroelectronics.
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E.
Sogitec Industries
Sogitec Industries is a French company specializing in simulation, training systems, and technical publications, particularly for the aerospace and defense sectors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
semiconductor equipment company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquired | Orbotech ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| competitor |
ASML Holding
ⓘ
linked to:
ASML
Applied Materials ⓘ Tokyo Electron ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customer |
foundries
ⓘ
integrated device manufacturers ⓘ packaging and assembly companies ⓘ semiconductor manufacturers ⓘ |
| dateOfMerger | 1997 ⓘ |
| employs | thousands of employees ⓘ |
| formerName |
KLA-Tencor Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
KLA Corporation
|
| foundedBy |
Bob Anderson
ⓘ
Kenneth Levy ⓘ |
| hasR&DCenter |
Asia
ⓘ
Israel ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSubsidiary |
Orbotech
ⓘ
SPTS Technologies ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Milpitas, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Milpitas, California, United States
|
| inception | 1975 ⓘ |
| industry |
inspection systems
ⓘ
metrology ⓘ process control ⓘ semiconductor equipment ⓘ yield management ⓘ |
| ISIN | US4824801009 ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| mergedWith | Tencor Instruments ⓘ |
| nameChange | 2019 ⓘ |
| originallyNamed |
KLA Instruments
ⓘ
linked to:
KLA Corporation
|
| productOrService |
critical dimension metrology tools
ⓘ
data analytics software ⓘ defect inspection tools ⓘ metrology systems ⓘ overlay metrology tools ⓘ process control systems ⓘ reticle inspection systems ⓘ wafer inspection systems ⓘ yield management systems ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
nanoelectronics industry
ⓘ
semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | KLAC ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NASDAQ:KLAC ⓘ |
| website | https://www.kla.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: KLA Corporation Description of subject: KLA Corporation is a leading American company that provides process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: KLA Corporation
linked to: KLA Corporation