McAfee
E618960
McAfee is a global cybersecurity company best known for its antivirus and digital security software for consumers and businesses.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McAfee canonical | 11 |
| McAfee Associates | 2 |
| MacAfee | 1 |
| Macfee | 1 |
| McAfee Firewall | 1 |
| McAfee Security | 1 |
| McAfee VirusScan | 1 |
| McAfee antivirus software | 1 |
| McAffee | 1 |
| McFee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6790669 — 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: McAfee Context triple: [Permira, notableInvestment, McAfee]
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A.
Symantec
Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
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B.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity company known for its antivirus, cloud security, and enterprise threat protection solutions.
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C.
Norton Antivirus
Norton Antivirus is a widely used commercial antivirus and security software suite designed to protect computers and devices from malware, viruses, and other online threats.
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D.
Comodo Group
Comodo Group is a cybersecurity company best known for its SSL certificates, internet security software, and secure web browser products.
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E.
AVIRA
AVIRA is an electronic music producer and DJ known for his melodic, progressive sound and collaborations within the trance and dance music scenes.
- 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: McAfee Target entity description: McAfee is a global cybersecurity company best known for its antivirus and digital security software for consumers and businesses.
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A.
Symantec
Symantec is a cybersecurity and software company best known for its Norton antivirus products and enterprise security solutions.
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B.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity company known for its antivirus, cloud security, and enterprise threat protection solutions.
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C.
Norton Antivirus
Norton Antivirus is a widely used commercial antivirus and security software suite designed to protect computers and devices from malware, viruses, and other online threats.
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D.
Comodo Group
Comodo Group is a cybersecurity company best known for its SSL certificates, internet security software, and secure web browser products.
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E.
AVIRA
AVIRA is an electronic music producer and DJ known for his melodic, progressive sound and collaborations within the trance and dance music scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cybersecurity company ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription-based software ⓘ |
| competitor |
Bitdefender
ⓘ
Kaspersky ⓘ
linked to:
Kaspersky Lab
NortonLifeLock ⓘ
linked to:
Symantec
Trend Micro ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionMethod |
online download
ⓘ
pre-installed OEM software ⓘ |
| field |
computer security
ⓘ
information security ⓘ |
| focus |
consumer security solutions
ⓘ
endpoint and device protection ⓘ privacy and identity protection ⓘ |
| foundedBy | John McAfee ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Jose, California, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
computer software
ⓘ
cybersecurity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
antivirus software
ⓘ
consumer digital security ⓘ endpoint protection ⓘ |
| offers |
data protection
ⓘ
device optimization tools ⓘ email security ⓘ firewall protection ⓘ malware protection ⓘ parental controls ⓘ password management ⓘ ransomware protection ⓘ virus protection ⓘ web protection ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| productType |
VPN services
ⓘ
antivirus software ⓘ cloud security solutions ⓘ consumer security software ⓘ endpoint security software ⓘ enterprise security software ⓘ identity protection services ⓘ internet security software ⓘ mobile security software ⓘ |
| serves |
consumers
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ small and medium businesses ⓘ |
| targetMarket | global ⓘ |
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: McAfee Description of subject: McAfee is a global cybersecurity company best known for its antivirus and digital security software for consumers and businesses.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee
linked to: McAfee