Synopsys
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Synopsys is a leading American electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP company that provides software, tools, and services for designing and verifying integrated circuits and systems-on-chip.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Synopsys canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7563756 — 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: Synopsys Context triple: [Stanley Mazor, employer, Synopsys]
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A.
Cadence Research Systems
Cadence Research Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Chez Scheme implementation of the Scheme programming language.
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B.
Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
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C.
Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
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D.
Xilinx
Xilinx is a leading semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices, particularly FPGAs and related development tools.
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E.
Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
- 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: Synopsys Target entity description: Synopsys is a leading American electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP company that provides software, tools, and services for designing and verifying integrated circuits and systems-on-chip.
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A.
Cadence Research Systems
Cadence Research Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Chez Scheme implementation of the Scheme programming language.
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B.
Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
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C.
Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
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D.
Xilinx
Xilinx is a leading semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices, particularly FPGAs and related development tools.
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E.
Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Electronic design automation company
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Public company ⓘ Semiconductor intellectual property company ⓘ |
| areaServed | Worldwide ⓘ |
| competitor |
Cadence Design Systems
NERFINISHED
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Siemens EDA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| customer |
Fabless chip companies
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Integrated device manufacturers ⓘ Semiconductor companies ⓘ Systems companies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Analog and mixed-signal design
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Formal verification ⓘ Hardware verification ⓘ Integrated circuit design ⓘ Physical design ⓘ Semiconductor IP development ⓘ Software security testing ⓘ Static timing analysis ⓘ System-on-chip design ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Aart de Geus
NERFINISHED
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David Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Sunnyvale, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1986 ⓘ |
| industry |
Electronic design automation
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Semiconductor IP ⓘ Software ⓘ |
| offers |
Design services
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Electronic design automation software ⓘ Security and software integrity tools ⓘ Semiconductor IP cores ⓘ Silicon engineering services ⓘ Verification tools ⓘ |
| product |
ARC processor IP
NERFINISHED
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Design Compiler NERFINISHED ⓘ DesignWare IP NERFINISHED ⓘ Fusion Compiler NERFINISHED ⓘ HSPICE NERFINISHED ⓘ IC Compiler II NERFINISHED ⓘ PrimeTime NERFINISHED ⓘ Sentaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Software Integrity Group tools ⓘ Synplify NERFINISHED ⓘ VCS NERFINISHED ⓘ ZeBu emulation systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchange | Nasdaq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | SNPS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.synopsys.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: Synopsys Description of subject: Synopsys is a leading American electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP company that provides software, tools, and services for designing and verifying integrated circuits and systems-on-chip.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.